Stanford v. State

BRICKEN, Presiding Judge.

Bastardy proceedings under provision of section 3416 of the Code of Alabama, 1923. In said statute, it is provided that any single woman who is pregnant with a bastard child, or who has been delivered, that is to say, given birth to a bastard child, may make a'complaint on oath to any justice of the peace of the county where she is so pregnant, or, any justice of the peace of the county in which the child was delivered, accusing any one of being the father of said child, whereupon such justice must issue a warrant against such person, and cause him to be brought…