Hoffman v. State

By the Court,

Paine, J.

The plaintiff in error seeks to reverse a judgment of the circuit court for the reason that after adjudging him to be the father of a bastard child, and requiring him to pay certain sums for its future maintenance, it also required him to pay six hundred dollars for its past maintenance. At the time of the trial, the child was several years old, and the plaintiff in error claims that under the statute the court had no power to order him to pay anything for its past support, but only to provide for its future support.

We cannot adopt this view of the law. The language of…