People ex rel. Hood v. Gleason
Appellate Court of Illinois
Error to the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. Howard Hayes, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the March term, 1918.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Presiding Justice Holdom
delivered the opinion of the court.
Defendant was proceeded against under the Bastardy Act (J. & A. 703 et seq.). The relatrix filed her complaint May 28, 1917, alleging that she was an unmarried woman pregnant with child, which child would by law be deemed a bastard, and that the defendant, William J. Gleason, was the father of that child. A warrant was issued and defendant arrested thereunder, held to bail, and a jury trial had.
Sufficient facts appear from the evidence of the prosecution which, uncontradicted as they are, convict defendant of being responsible for…
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