State v. . Roberts
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Appeal from the Superior Court of Law of Brunswick County, at the Fall Term IS49, his Honor Judge Dick presiding. This is a proceeding under the bastardy Act, to subject the defendant, as the alleged father of the illegitimate child of one Zilpha Robbins, to its maintenance. The defendant and Zilpha Robbins, both lived in the County of Brunswick — the latter being a native of it — and while in that Count}', she proved to be with child.
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Appeal from the Superior Court of Law of Brunswick County, at the Fall Term IS49, his Honor Judge Dick presiding. This is a proceeding under the bastardy Act, to subject the defendant, as the alleged father of the illegitimate child of one Zilpha Robbins, to its maintenance. The defendant and Zilpha Robbins, both lived in the County of Brunswick — the latter being a native of it — and while in that Count}', she proved to be with child. During her pregnancy, she went into the County of New Hanover, where the child was born. While she resided there, proceedings were had against her under the…
1Opinion
The Bastardy Act directs any two justices of the peace to cause any woman "within their county," who is big with child, to be brought before them in order to charge the father; and in the fourth section requires the person found to be the father "to give bond to indemnify the county, when such child shall be born," for the maintenance of the child. The argument for the defendant is that the case has not occurred in which the defendant is chargeable in Brunswick, because in point of fact the child was born in New Hanover. (354) It is true, the act literally does not cover the case, but in its…
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