Boykin v. West

This is an appeal by the sureties from a judgment made final against them in the circuit court on an appearance bond in the sum of $500, payable to the State of Mississippi, in a bastardy proceedings originally instituted in a court of the justice of the peace.

On January 5, 1937, Mavis West filed an affidavit against Omer Walters, charging him with being the fa ther of her bastard child before a justice of the peace of Jones County. On January 7, the justice of the peace issued a warrant for Omer Walters addressed to the sheriff of Clarke County. The sheriff promptly arrested Walters, as…