Bowers v. People

Hr. Chief Justice Walkeb

delivered the opinion of the Court:

This was a prosecution under the bastardy act, against Aaron Bowers. The charge was that he was the father of a bastard child by Hannah 0. Johnson. He was bound over for his appearance at the circuit court, where, on a trial, the jury found him to be the father of the child. A motion for a new trial was entered, but overruled by the court, and the judgment required by the statute was entered, and this appeal was taken, and various errors are assigned.

Amongst others, it is insisted that the court erred in giving, refusing and modifying…