Scott v. State

This is a bastardy prosecution against appellant, begun on the first day of July, 1925, at Paris, in the Northern District of Logan County, on a complaint of Mabel Freeman, charging that appellant is the father of a bastard child born to her on the 9th day of January, 1925, and praying that ho be retpiired to pay the lying-in expenses and a monthly sum for the support of said child. The case was tried before a jury in the county court, which resulted in a mistrial, and was tried again on the 21st day of September, resulting in a verdict and judgment against him. An appeal was duly prosecuted…