Coan v. State

In'a proceeding regularly instituted and prosecuted as provided by section 3416 et seq. of the Code of 1923, the iwtitioner was duly adjudged to be the father of Eva Catherine, the bastard child of Katie Carroll, a single woman.

Before entering upon the trial of the ease on its merits in the circuit court, the defendant, petitioner here, filed a plea questioning the jurisdiction of the court to proceed against him, on the ground that exclusive jurisdiction in such matters is conferred on the probate, juvenile, or domestic courts, by section 4484 of the Code; that said section, by implication,…