Swint v. State

1. The prosecution was instituted on account of the failure of the accused to give the bond required of him for the support of a bastard child, alleged to be his. The judgment of the magistrate upon the preliminary bastardy inquest followed the térms of the statute, except it was specified that the defendant should give security in the sum of $750. Counsel for the plaintiff in error makes the point that the judgmefit of the magistrate was invalid because it specified $750 as the penal sum of the bond. As this court pointed out in Childers v. State, 3 Ga. App. 449 (60 S. E. 128), the statute…