State ex rel. Washington v. Hunter
Supreme Court of Alabama
Proceedings for Bastardy; Plea, Statute of Limitations of One Year-. Appeal from Dallas Circuit Court. Tried before Hon. G. H. Craig. The facts appear sufficiently from tbe opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
SOMEBYILLE, J.-
— This proceeding was commenced before a justice of the peace, on March 9th, 1880, charging the appellee with being the reputed father of a bastard child, under the provisions of Chap. 6, Title I, Part 4, §§ 4071 et seq. of the Code of 1876.
The accused was required to enter into bond to appear for trial in the Circuit Court of Dallas county, and appearing there defended by pleading the statute of limitations of one year.
The complaint of the relator showed that she was delivered of a child on January 12’, 1878, being then and at the time of becoming pregnant, a single or…
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