Davis v. State ex rel. Hughes

This was a case of bastardy. The plaintiff in error was recognized to appear in the Circuit Court by William Harrington, a justice of the peace, to answer to the complaint of the relator. He appeared and pleaded, 1, Not guilty; 2, That on, &c., and before the birth of the child named in the complaint,the said Catharine Hughes, the relator, made complaint before one J. M. Wilson, a justice of *the peace of Warren county that she was then pregnant with a child, which, when born, would be a bastard ; that he, the said Davis, was the father of it; that he was thereupon arrested and taken before…