Rawles v. State ex rel. Ford

The relatrix of the appellee filed her complaint before a justice of Benton county, alleging therein that she had been delivered of a bastard child, which was then living, and that the appellant was the father of said child. Afterward, in the Benton Circuit Court, on the appellant’s application, the venue of the action was changed to the court below.

The cause was tried by a jury, in the court below, and a verdict was returned for the appellee, that the appellant was the father of the bastard child named in the com*435plaint. On written causes filed, the appellant moved-the .court below for a new…