Bailey v. State

Robert Bailey was indicted for bastardy. The indictment charged as follows: “For that the said Robert Bailey in the county aforesaid on the 7th day of January Nineteen Hundred and Thirty-Five with force and arms being the father of a bastard child born to Gussie Wright, and upon a lawful warrant issued by B. K. Armstrong, acting under and by virtue of the authority vested in her as deputy clerk of the Municipal Court of the City of Augusta in and for the County of Richmond, charging him, the said accused, with the offense of bastardy, and, upon the trial of said warrant before the Judge of…