Williams v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Bastardy Proceedings. Appeal from the City Court of Anniston. On the 5th day of September, 1896, Corrie Thomas made affidavit before W. A. Yeatman, a justice of the peace, that she was a single woman residing in Calhoun county, Alabama, and pregnant with a bastard child, and that Henry Williams was the father of the child. On the same day said justice of the peace issued a warrant for the arrest of Henry Williams for the offense of bastardy “by pregnating Corrie Thomas.”
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Bastardy Proceedings. Appeal from the City Court of Anniston. On the 5th day of September, 1896, Corrie Thomas made affidavit before W. A. Yeatman, a justice of the peace, that she was a single woman residing in Calhoun county, Alabama, and pregnant with a bastard child, and that Henry Williams was the father of the child. On the same day said justice of the peace issued a warrant for the arrest of Henry Williams for the offense of bastardy “by pregnating Corrie Thomas.” Henry Williams was arrested on the 7th day of September, 1896, and had his trial before said justice of the peace on the…
1Opinion of the CourtColeman, J.
This is a proceeding in bastardy, instituted by Come Thomas before a justice of the peace. The appellant was bound over to the city court for trial. We have no doubt of the jurisdiction of the city court to try and determine the question involved in proceedings in bastardy, arising within its territorial jurisdiction. Tenn. Mutual B. & L. Asso. v. The State, 99 Ala. 197. The jurisdiction of the city court was fully considered and determined in the ease cited. Nor do we doubt that the court ruled properly in overruling the motion to quash-, because of the proceedings before the justice of the…
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