State v. Beatty
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Delaware District Court. The defendant was charged with bastardy. The complaint was filed before the child was born. The woman was delivered of a dead child between the time of making the complaint and the trial of the cause. At the time of her sickness and the birth of the child, medical attention and other expenses were necessary, which were furnished at the expense of the county. There was a trial by jury, and the defendant was found guilty.
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Appeal from Delaware District Court. The defendant was charged with bastardy. The complaint was filed before the child was born. The woman was delivered of a dead child between the time of making the complaint and the trial of the cause. At the time of her sickness and the birth of the child, medical attention and other expenses were necessary, which were furnished at the expense of the county. There was a trial by jury, and the defendant was found guilty. The state asked judgment for the expense of the medieal attention and other lying-in expenses. The defendant claimed that, the child not…
1Opinion of the CourtEothrook, J.
— Section 4715 of the .Code provides .that “when any woman residing in any county of the state is delivered of a bastard child, or is pregnant with a child which, if born alive, will be a bastard, complaint- may be made in writing by any -person to the district court of. the county where she resides, stating that fact, and charging the proper person as being the father thereof * * * * *.”
*308Other sections of the statute provide that from the time of the complaint a lien shall be created upon the real property of the accused in the county, for the payment of any money and the performance of any…
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