Huggins v. State

“One essential element of the offense of bastardy being the refusal or failure of the accused ‘to give security for the maintenance and education’ of the child, Svhen required to do so in terms of the law,’ and the law in such cases declaring that the accused, when brought before a justice of the peace, ‘may be required to give security for the maintenance and education of the child until it arrives at the age of fourteen years,’ etc., a mere general requirement that the accused give ‘a $750 bond for education and maintenance of the child,’ without limit as to time, is not lawful, for the…