Franklin v. State

SIMPSON, Judge.

This is a prosecution for bastardy against the appellant, originating by warrant in the Inferior Court of Tuscaloosa County, which court had preliminary jurisdiction of the' .case. Upon hearing the appellant was held in bond to the circuit court and there tried and, by the jury, found to be the father of the bastard child of prosecutrix, a single woman.

The verdict of the jury was as follows: “We, the jury, find the defendant, Lee Franklin, the father of bastard child, Frances Lee Turner. W. C. White, foreman.”

The record originally submitted in this court was imperfect, the…