Wheless v. State

On August 24, 1953, the defendant was convicted in the City Court of Savannah under an accusation, dated April 30, 1953, charging him with the offense of bastardy, for that he did on April 4, 1953, “being then and there the father of a bastard child with whom ... [a named female] was then and there pregnant, and having been arrested and brought before . . . [the Judge of the Municipal Court of Sa- . vannah] clothed by law with the powers of a justice of the peace in and for Chatham County, having been required by said judge to give security in the terms of the law, to wit: a good and…