Franks v. State

SAMFORD, Judge.

The prosecution was begun by affidavit in the juvenile court of Jefferson county, and charged the defendant under section 4480 of the Code of 1923 with having failed to provide for his infant child, etc. The child was born to a married woman, and while her husband was still living. But the testimony for the state tends to prove that the child was a bastard and that tMs defendant is its natural father. This being the case, whatever may have been the law relative to such cases prior to the adoption of the Code of 1923,' if he is in fact'the father of the cMld, and he fails to…