Wiggins v. Commonwealth
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 7 — BASTARDY WARRANT APPEAL FROM ROBERTSON CIRCUIT COURT. I. The statements of the affidavits, if they show anything, prove only that the appellant was guilty of a contempt, and the law does not authorize a court to punish one in contempt hy rendering a judgment against him in the case in which the contempt was committed without a trial thereof. Arnold v. Commonwealth, SO Ky., 300; in re Wooley, 11, Bush, 95; Amer.
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Case 7 — BASTARDY WARRANT APPEAL FROM ROBERTSON CIRCUIT COURT. I. The statements of the affidavits, if they show anything, prove only that the appellant was guilty of a contempt, and the law does not authorize a court to punish one in contempt hy rendering a judgment against him in the case in which the contempt was committed without a trial thereof. Arnold v. Commonwealth, SO Ky., 300; in re Wooley, 11, Bush, 95; Amer. Law Reg., vol. 2, p. 124; ex parte Landon, 25 Ver., 680; ex parte Cooper, 32 Ver., 253; 24 Texas, 14; 37 Texas, 341. 1. Under the provisions of section 730 of the Civil Code,…
1Opinion of the Court
JUDGE PAYNTER
delivered the opinion oe the court.
In November, 1891, Sarah M. Ellis obtained a warrant ior the arrest of the appellant, Willis Wiggins, on a charge that he was the father of her bastard child. The trial in the county court resulted in a verdict of guilty, and the appellant was adjudged to pay $50 per year for a period of ten years. The judgment was rendered in March, 1892, from which he prosecuted an appeal to the circuit court. The ease remained on the docket until the August term, 1894, when a judgment was rendered in that court for the amounts fixed in the judgment of the…
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