McIlvain v. State ex rel. Emery

— On the 18th day of October, 1879, Phoebe A. Emery, an unmarried woman, filed a complaint before a justice of the peace of Marion county alleging that she was pregnant with a bastard child, and charging that Charles F. Mcllvain was the father of such child. Mcllvain was arrested upon the charge thus made against him and taken before the justice. Upon a hearing the justice required him to appear in the circuit court to further answer the complaint of the relatrix. In the circuit court a jury returned a verdict finding that the relatrix was pregnant with a bastard child and that Mcllvain was…