State v. Hackett

This is a complaint against the defendant under Pub. Stat. R. I. cap. 73, to charge him as the father of a bastard child begotten on the body of one Catherine Farrell. The complaint was made by the Overseer of the Poor of the city of Providence, May 6, 1882, in pursuance of an examination of said Catherine, then enceinte. The complaint charges that at Providence, on the 6th May, 1882, “ Catherine Farrell, an unmarried woman, is with child, which, if born alive, may be a bastard, and that said child was begotten by James Hackett, on or about the sixth day of October, 1881, at said Providence,”…