State v. . Liles

This is a proceeding in bastardy. The prosecutrix was a married woman at the time of the birth of the child, which was born four or five months after marriage. The court charged the jury that (736) "This is a criminal action and the offense is completed when the child is begotten." To this the defendant excepted. The object of the proceeding, as stated in the Code, sec. 32, is to require the mother, if she shall refuse to declare the father, to "give bond, payable to the State, with sufficient surety to keep such child or children from being chargeable to the county"; and if she shall accuse…