State v. Murdock

In the petition in this action, in the district court of Gage county, it was in substance alleged that one George F. L. Walker was arrested and brought before a justice of the peace of said county to answer to a charge of bastardy; that he was the father of a bastard child, of which Elizabeth Walker, an unmarried woman, then and now a resident of Gage county, had then been delivered. It was further pleaded that on hearing before the justice the defendant was ordered to enter a recognizance in the sum of |1,000, conditioned that he be and appear at the next term of the district court in and…