Thornton v. State

The complaint was made before: the Jefferson county court of misdemeanors, a court having by statute the jurisdiction of justices of the peace, by Ilat-tie Mooney, a single» woman, alleging that she was delivered of a bastard child in Jefferson -county, Ala., and accusing the defendant of being the father of such child. This was -in strict accord with Code 1907, § 6364. If it should have appeared from the affidavit that the birth of the child had taken place more than 12 months before the beginning of the proceedings, it would have been the duty of the court to have quashed the process,…