Cunningham v. State ex rel. Wilson

This was a proceeding in bastardy, commenced on the 21st day of June, 1869, before a justice of the peace of Clinton county, against the appellant, who was arrested and appeared before the justice. The justice, upon the preliminary examination, found that the appellant was the father of the bastard child named in the complaint, and recognized him to- appear at the next term of the Clinton Common Pleas Court, to, answer such charge.

The justice, on the first day of July, 1869, filed the transcript and papers in the clerk’s office of said county. The clerk marked the same as filed in the circuit…