People v. Suhling

This suit is prosecuted under what is known as the Bastardy Act. The proceeding was commenced before a justice of the peace by the filing of a preliminary complaint, as required by the statute, in which complaint Helen Mae Hill charged that she was an unmarried woman, was pregnant with child, which by law would be deemed a bastard, and that Henry P. Suhling, the appellant, was the father of the child.

Upon a hearing, based upon the complaint before the justice of the peace, appellant was bound over to the next succeeding term of the county court of Lake county, and on December 19,1922, an…