Speiger v. State
Wisconsin Supreme Court
ERROR to tbe Circuit Court for Milwaukee County. Proceeding under the bastardy act. Trial in tbe circuit court, and verdict of guilty.
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ERROR to tbe Circuit Court for Milwaukee County. Proceeding under the bastardy act. Trial in tbe circuit court, and verdict of guilty. Tbe judgment or order on sucb verdict is as follows; “On the verdict of tbe jury finding tbe defendant guilty in tbe above entitled action, and upon due proof to tbe court, it is ordered that tbe defendant pay to tbe complainant, or to Nathan Perles, her attorney, the sum of fifty dollars for lying-in expenses and for tbe. support of her bastard child to this date, and twenty-five dollars attorney’s fees ; that tbe defendant also pay tbe costs of this…
1Opinion of the CourtLyoN, J.
I. Sec. 6 of tbe bastardy act (R. S.. cb. 37) pro*402vides, among other things, that if the accused be found guilty in the circuit court, “he shall be adjudged to be the father of such child, and shall stand chargeable with the maintenance thereof in such sum or sums, or in such manner, as the court may direct, and the payment of all the costs of prosecution.”
In this case the judgment of the circuit court is fatally defective, in that it contains no judgment of affiliation as required by the statute. This requirement must be complied with, or the judgment will be irregular. Because the defendant…
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