State ex rel. of Bell v. Allen

This is a case of bastardy certified by a justice of the peace to the Circuit Court.

The transcript of the justice states that Sarah Bell, air unmarried woman of Clinton county, on the 20th of September, 1834, made oath before him, that she had been delivered of a bastard child on the 13th of June .preceding, and that -Jesse Allen was the father of the child,. The transcript also states, that, upon this accusation, a warrant issued against Allen, who appeared and denied the charge; and that after the complainant had been examined by the justice and cross-examined by the defendant, the justice…