Coan v. State

The bastardy statutes (chapter 85 [sections 3416-3439], of the Code of 1923) are not repealed by the desertion and nonsupport statutes (chapter 157 [sections 4479-4495], of the Code of 1923).

The father of an illegitimate child may be “called to account,” in either of the modes indicated by the two sets of statutes mentioned above. Patterson v. State, 23 Ala. App. 342, 127 So. 792, certiorari denied by Supreme Court, 221 Ala. 96, 127 So. 793.

Here, the proceeding is under the “bastardy statutes,” where “technical rules are not required” — nor applied. Owens v. State, 21 Ala. App. 321, 108 So.…