Hemby v. State

This action originated in the county court of Pike County, where a complaint was filed against appellant, a boy eighteen years of age, charging him with being the father of a bastard child theretofore delivered of Cornelia Cornelius, a girl seventeen years of age. Trial in the county court resulted in a finding and judgment that appellant was not the father of said child. An appeal was prosecuted to the circuit court, where a jury trial was had, which resulted in a verdict that appellant was the father of said child, and it was adjudged that he forthwith pay to said girl “the sum of $50 for…