Cross v. People
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Washtenaw Circuit, where plaintiff in error had been tried by jury, under the Bastardy act, found guilty, ordered to make certain payments for the support of the bastard child, and to give bond to the county superintendents of the poor to indemnify the county against the maintainance of such child. To remove the proceedings into this court, he sued out this writ of error.
1Opinion of the Court
The Chibe Justice:
The proceedings under the Bastardy act are purely statutory, and not after the course of the common law. They are anomalous in character, jiartaking in some respects of a civil and in others of a criminal nature. They may be instituted either in the name of the People, or of the complainant, as they are partly for the benefit of such complainant, and partly for the indemnity of the public. The complainant is, in all cases, a witness; no costs follow the judgment, and the issue to be tried is the paternity of the child with which the complainant is pregnant, or of which she…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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