Hatfield v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Clarke.

Affirming.

On May 29, 1916, Jeannette Eunyons made affidavit before the clerk of the. Lawrence county court that appellant, A. E. Hatfield, was the father of her bastard child, begotten about May 25 or 26, 1915, and procured a warrant to be issued for his arrest. Upon the trial in the county court, the defendant was adjudged to be the father of the child and ordered to pay to the mother for his support $Í20.00 a year for fourteen years; and from this judgment he appealed to the circuit court, and upon a trial there he was again convicted and a judgment…