Haddock v. State

The issue in a proceeding in bastardy must be broad enough to comprehend the inquiry whether the complainant is a single woman, and whether she is pregnant with, or delivered of, the child in the county in which the complaint was made, and, in addition thereto, is the defendant the father of such child? Lake v. Governor, 2 Stew. 395; Trawick v. Davis, 4 Ala. 328.

On the question of the paternity of the child, any evidence tending to prove an intimacy between the mother 'and defendant prior to the pregnancy is relevant and admissible. In this case it was admissible to prove that up to and prior…