McCoy v. State ex rel. Trucks

— This is an appeal from a judgment in which it was found and adjudged that the appellant was the father of a bastard child begotten by him of the body of the relatrix, and in which it was also adjudged that he pay a specified sum to secure the maintenance and education of the child. At the preliminary hearing the justice of the peace before whom the proceedings were instituted, found that the defendant “ was not proven to be the father of the bastard child/5 and “adjudged that he be discharged.55 Thereupon, the record of the justice continues, “ Thomas Bosworth, on the part of the State,…