Miller v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Marshall. Tried before the Hon. J. A. Bilbro. This was a bastardy proceeding, commenced by the following affidavit being made before a justice of the peace of Marshall county., on November 2, 1893 : “Personally appeared before me, Thos.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Marshall. Tried before the Hon. J. A. Bilbro. This was a bastardy proceeding, commenced by the following affidavit being made before a justice of the peace of Marshall county., on November 2, 1893 : “Personally appeared before me, Thos. J. Robertson, a justice of the peace in and for said State and county, Leola Lewis, who being duly sworn deposeth and saith that she is a single woman and residing in said county, and is pregnant with a bastard child, and that one Thomas J. Miller is the father of said bastard child.” Upon this affidavit a writ of arrest was…
1Opinion of the CourtColeman, J.
This is a proceeding for bastardy, prosecuted by Leolar Lewis, in the name of the State of Alabama. In such cases it is not necessary that a minor should appear by next friend.—Hanna v. State, 60 Ala. 100.
On the 5th of January, 1894, the defendant was bound over by a justice of the peace, to appear before the circuit court to answer the charge. The first term of the circuit court at which the defendant was bound to appear began the following April. At that term the case was not docketed, and no order made specially in regard to the case. At the close of the term, the court entered a general…
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