State v. Fleming

In an indictment returned by the grand jurors for Carroll County on May 17th, 1928, C. Arnold Fleming was charged with the crime of bastardy. "Five days later he pleaded not guilty and elected to be tried before the court, sitting as a jury, by whose verdict he was found guilty, and under an applicable provision of section 5 of article 12 of the Code (as amended by Laws of 1927, ch. 458) the court gave judgment and sentence that the traverser give bond to the State in the sum of $300, with sureties, conditioned to pay to the mother of the bastard child, for her support and maintenance until…