Williams v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Payette. Tried before tbe Hon. Thomas A. Walker. The proceedings in this case were instituted before a justice of the peace, on the complaint of Susannah Winsted, that the defendant was the father of a bastard child of which she had been delivered.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Payette. Tried before tbe Hon. Thomas A. Walker. The proceedings in this case were instituted before a justice of the peace, on the complaint of Susannah Winsted, that the defendant was the father of a bastard child of which she had been delivered. The affidavit, on which the justice’s warrant was issued, did not state that the said Susannah Winsted was a single woman, nor that the child was begotten or born in the county of Fayette; but the warrant itself recited these facts. The defendant was bound over to the then nest term of the circuit court, to which…
1Opinion of the CourtRice, C. J.
If the circuit court of Eayette had jurisdiction of the proceeding in bastardy, in which it rendered the judgment at its fall term, 1854, there was no error in allowing that judgment to be amended, in the particular in which it was amended at the fall term, 1855, of that court. The State v. Craig, 12 Ala. R. 363; Campbell v. The State, 16 ib. 144; Hood v. Br. Bk. atMobile, 9 ib. 335; Boyd v. Gilchrist, 15 ib. 840; Reavis’s Digest, pages 51 to 62.
Upon the authoi’ity of Wilson v. The County Judge of Pike, 18 Ala. R. 157, it is clear that the said circuit court did have jurisdiction of the said…
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