Cash v. State

LESTER, V. C. J.

The plaintiff in error appeals from an order of the court granting the state of Oklahoma a new trial in a civil proceeding prosecuted under section 8059, C. O. S. 1921, which provides:

“Whenever any woman residing in any county of this state is delivered of a bastard child, or is pregnant with a child which if horn alive will be a bastard, complaint may be made in writing, duly verified, by any person to the county court of the county where such woman resides, stating that fact and charging the proper person with being the father thereof. The proceeding shall be entitled in the…