Sword v. Nestor

This writ of error seeks the reversal of an order of a County Court, requiring the plaintiff in error to give bond for the maintenance of. a bastard child; and which must be reversed for the following, among other reasons—

First. The mother of the bastard was the principal witness against the plaintiff, and the Court refused to permit him to prove her general moral character. Such proof was relevant, and may have been, not only important, but decisive, — because it might have shown how far, or whether at all, her testimony ought to have been accredited.

Second. The mother had been, but a short…