Jackson v. State

In January, 1874, Cynthia Lane made complaint before a justice of the peace of Washington county, that she had been delivered of a bastard male child, of which Everett Jackson was the father; whereupon a warrant was issued for the arrest of the accused, to answer the complaint. On the trial, the birth of the child, and that Jackson was its father, being proven to the satisfaction of the magistrate, he ordered the accused to enter into bond, as prescribed by the statute, and adjudged him to pay five dollars for the lying-in expenses of the mother, and two dollars a month for the maintenance of…