State v. Shumpert
Supreme Court of South Carolina
BEFORE THE DISTRICT JüDGE, AT LEXINGTON, FEBRUARY Term, 1867. This was a prosecution for bastardy, commenced by warrant to arrest, dated October 27, 1866. Anna M. Craps, wife of Henry Craps, was the prosecutrix, and the charge was, that she was the mother of a bastard child, born January 17, 1861, and that defendant was the father.
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BEFORE THE DISTRICT JüDGE, AT LEXINGTON, FEBRUARY Term, 1867. This was a prosecution for bastardy, commenced by warrant to arrest, dated October 27, 1866. Anna M. Craps, wife of Henry Craps, was the prosecutrix, and the charge was, that she was the mother of a bastard child, born January 17, 1861, and that defendant was the father. It was in evidence that Henry Craps, the husband, was absent from the State from some time in the spring of 1863 until about three months after the child was born. The prosecutrix testified that defendant was the father of the child, and that it was begotten in…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Moses, C. J.
The defendant was indicted for bastardy, and tried and convicted at the February Term, 1867, of the District Court of Lexington.
The warrant under which he was arrested, issued October 27, 1866, founded on an affidavit made the same day.
*86He seeks a new trial, by reason of alleged misdirection of the Judge, and, indeed, several other grounds, which, to be of benefit to him, should have been presented on a motion in arrest of judgment.
They will, however, all be considered, as if brought before us in due form..The first is, that, as the said…
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