Powell v. State

Howk. C. J.

This was a prosecution by the appellee’s relatrix against the appellant, upon the charge that he was the father of her unborn child, which, if born alive, would be a bastard. Upon the trial of the cause by a jury, in the circuit court, a verdict was returned “ that the relatrix, Hannah A. Salyers, is pregnant with a bastard child, and that the defendant, George Powell, is the father of such bastard child.” Over the appellant’s motion for a new trial, the court assessed the amount to be paid by him for the maintenance *109and education of the child of the relatrix, and provided in what…