State ex rel. Keen v. Wilson

Prosecution for bastardy. The defendant, the present appellee, answered the complaint. His answer consists of two paragraphs. To the first a demurrer was overruled, and the plaintiff excepted; but to the second it was sustained. The first paragraph alleges, that, after the commencement of the prosecution, viz: on March the 31st, 1859, the defendant made provision for the maintenance of the bastard child to the satisfaction of Mariah Keen, the mother and relatrix; whereupon she made and filed in said Court her written admission of such provision, which is in this form:

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