State v. Gray

This was a prosecution for bastardy against Gray. The complaint was made by Mary Anne Welch before a justice of the peace of Tippecanoe county: it charges Gray with being the father of a bastard child of which the complainant had been delivered; that she was an unmarried woman, aná was, at the time of making the complaint, a resident of Tippecanoe county; and that the child was with her. The justice issued his warrant; the defendant was taken; and an examination was had before the justice. It “appeared in the course of the examination, that the complainant arrived in Lafayette, in Tippecanoe…