Morgan v. State

The certiorari is requested on two propositions. First, failure of applicant to make assignment of error, which is alleged to be necessary in a bastardy proceeding; and second, error of the Court of Appeals in ■basing its opinion on a “dictum taken from the opinion written by the Supreme Court in the case of Coan v. State, 25 Ala.App. 62, 141 So. 262,” certiorari denied, 224 Ala. 584, 141 So. 263.

The law covering the subject connects bastardy statutes and a proceeding under this statute-for nonsupport, Sections 4479, 4480, Code, in such wise as to compel a consideration of the paternity of a…