Barnes v. Ryan
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Complaint, under the bastardy act, Pub. Sts. c. 85. At the trial in the Superior Court, before Richardson, J., the jury returned a verdict of guilty; and the respondent alleged exceptions, which appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtLathrop, J.
The question in this case is whether a man who has been discharged by a police court after a hearing on a complaint for bastardy, can set up this discharge as a bar to a subsequent complaint for the same offence.
Both complaints were made to the police court of Lynn, under the Pub. Sts. c. 85, § 1, as amended by the Sts. of 1885, c. 289, and 1891, c. 367. The amendments do not, however, affect the case.
An examination of the provisions of the Pub. Sts. c. 85, shows that the jurisdiction of an inferior court in bastardy cases is a very limited one. By § 1, it may issue a warrant against the…
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