In re Parker

*280The opinion of the court was delivered by

Johnston, J.:

This is an original proceeding in habeas corpus, through which the petitioner, Ernest C. Parker, seeks to be released from an imprisonment which he alleges is illegal. The return made by the respondent shows that the petitioner has been arrested, and is in custody upon a charge that he is the father of a bastard child. It appears that on August 31, 1889, Maggie Green made complaint before a justice of the peace of Riley county, charging Parker with being the father of a bastard child, of which she was delivered on the 31st day of July,…