Bembo v. State

The prosecution was commenced by affidavit made by Alsba Gilmore before L.J. Salter, a justice of the peace, charging that she was a single woman, the mother of a bastard child, and that the defendant (appellant) was the father of the child. Upon hearing the defendant was held in bond to the circuit court, and there tried, and found by a jury to be the father of the bastard child. Defendant was required to give the statutory bond as provided by section 6376, Code 1907.

The burden is upon the state to reasonably satisfy the jury by the evidence that the acts of illicit intercourse by the…