Halton v. State Ex Rel. Lasley

Opinion by

JARMAN, C.

This is an appeal by the plaintiff in error from a judgment rendered by the county court of Woods county against him in a bastardy proceeding. The evidence produced during the progress of the trial and the proceedings in connection with the plaintiff in error’s motion for a new trial show that said plaintiff in error, defendant below, was a minor of the age of 18 years at the time of the trial. The question of the defendant’s minority was not raised prior to nor during the progress of the trial, but after the jury returned a verdict of guilty against the defendant, said…