Locke v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Indictment for bastardy. Tried before Judge Holt. Washington Superior Court. September Term, 1847. Verdict guilty. It was not averred in the indictment that the plaintiff in error was the father of the alleged bastard child. For a copy of the charging part of the indictment, see the opinion delivered by the Supreme Court. Several grounds of error were taken by counsel for the plaintiff in error.
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Indictment for bastardy. Tried before Judge Holt. Washington Superior Court. September Term, 1847. Verdict guilty. It was not averred in the indictment that the plaintiff in error was the father of the alleged bastard child. For a copy of the charging part of the indictment, see the opinion delivered by the Supreme Court. Several grounds of error were taken by counsel for the plaintiff in error. The only one considered by the Supreme Court was that predicated upon the refusal of the Court below to arrest the judgment, to wit, that it was not charged that the plaintiff in error was the father…
1Opinion of the Court
*535 By the Court.
Nisbet, J.,
delivering the opinion.
The bill of indictment in this case charges the defendant with a misdemeanor, “for that the said "William Locke, (the defendant) of the county of Washington aforesaid, on the sixteenth day of J une, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven, with force and arms, in the county of Washington aforesaid, was arrested, by virtue of a warrant issued by one Green Andrews, a justice of the peace in and for the county aforesaid, having lawful and competent authority in the premises; which was issued upon the affidavit of one…
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