Morgan v. Thompson

Miss Morgan appeals from an order of the Circuit Court of the First Judicial District of Hinds County, Mississippi, sustaining a plea in bar based upon Section 393 of the Mississippi Code of 1942. Chapter 1 of Title 4 of the Mississippi Code of 1942 is our chapter on bastardy proceedings.

Section 383 of the Code provides for the proceedings to be begun by the making of an affidavit by the woman involved against the alleged father, this affidavit to be made before any justice of the peace of the county where she may be so delivered, or of the county in which she or the reputed father may…