Canfield v. State ex rel. Shepherd

ÍTiblagk, J.

This was a prosecution for bastardy, commenced before a justice of tbe peace, and afterwards certified to the circuit court.

The complaint stated, in substance, that the relatrix, Harriet Shepherd, was, on the 1st day of September, 1874, delivered of a bastard child, and that the appellant was the father of said child.

The defendant appeared in the circuit court, and answered in two paragraphs:

First. In general denial; and,

*169Second. That said child was not born alive, and that the appellant paid all the lying-in expenses of the relatrix.

To the second paragraph of the answer, there was…