Mizell v. State

HARWOOD, Presiding Judge.

In the bastardy proceedings in the court below'this appellant was adjudged to be the real father of the illegitimate child born to the prosecutrix.

Although the prosecutrix is represented by the State in the bastardy proceeding, such proceedings are only quasi crimi*37nal and governed by the rules of appellate civil procedure. Borden v. State, 27 Ala. App. 271, 170 So. 98; Eason v. State, 30 Ala.App. 224, 4 So.2d 190; Sims v. State, 36 Ala.App. 349, 55 So.2d 863. Counsel for appellant has argued two specifications of error in his brief, and our review will be confined to…