People v. Harty

It appears from the record that a female variously called in the proceedings Kittie, Hattie and Catherine Hoey was on the 26th of July, 1879, delivered of a bastard child at Big Rapids, Mecosta county, the place where she was then living; that in February, 1880, she went before the police judge of Grand Rapids and charged Timothy H'arty with being the father of the child, and that such proceedings were there had that the Superior Court of the city took jurisdiction and in November, 1880, held a trial in which the charge was sustained; that on the 30th of *491December following the court grounded…