Easdale v. Reynolds
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Complaint under the bastardy act, Pub. Sts. e. 85. At the trial in the Superior Court, before Aldrich J., the jury returned a verdict of guilty ; and the respondent alleged exceptions, the nature of which appears in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtMorton, C. J.
Bastardy proceedings must be commenced by complaint before a police, district, or municipal court, or trial justice. The inferior tribunal, after a default or a hearing, requires of the defendant a bond for his appearance in the Superior Court, and the proper course of proceeding is for it to transmit to the Superior Court certified copies of the complaint and warrant, and of the record of the court or trial justice. Pub. Sts. c. 85, § 7. Biggane v. Ross, 126 Mass. 233. But the Superior Court exercises an original, and not an appellate jurisdiction, and the proceedings before the inferior…
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