Hawley v. State ex rel. Fisk

This was a prosecution .by the State, on the relation of Mary E. Eisk, against Marcellus M. Hawley, for bastardy, and was commenced before a justice of the peace of Union county.

The defendant was not found in the county, and the justice proceeded to hear and determine the cause in his absence. After hearing the evidence, the justice adjudged the defendant to be the father of the bastard child, and transmitted the papers, with a transcript of his judgment, to the clerk of the court below, in which latter court the cause was docketed for trial.

The defendant entered a special appearance in the…