McCombs v. State

Crawford, Justice.

Nelson McCombs, the plaintiff in error, was indicted for misdemeanor, which, as alleged, consisted in his being the father of a bastard child, and upon the oath of the mother to this fact, and that it was probable that the said child would become chargeable to the county of Clark, he had been arrested and carried before a justice of the peace, who had required him to give bond and security to support the said bastard child, which he had refused to do, when so required in.terms of the law, whereupon he had been held to answrer the said offense. To this accusation the…