State Ex Rel. Crouser v. Mercer

Haymond, Judge:

This bastardy proceeding, in which a warrant for the arrest of the defendant, Donald Ray Mercer, was issued on September 25, 1950, by a justice of the peace of Marion County upon the sworn complaint of the relator, Sharlene Davis Crouser, accusing the defendant as the father of her bastard child born November 3, 1949, was tried and determined in the criminal court of that county on September 24, 1951.

The defendant made a motion to quash the warrant on the ground that the complaint and the warrant show that at the time the warrant was issued Sharlene Davis Crouser, the…