State v. Schwartz

The questions presented for our determination are, first, whether the trial court erred in refusing to admit the record of the bastardy proceeding as evidence, and, second, whether the trial court erred in its charge to the jury.

Appellant contends that the record of the bastardy proceeding was admissible in. evidence; that such a proceeding is one in rem, fixing the status of the child; that thereafter the mother is precluded from asserting in any court that the appellant was the father; and that any prosecution commenced by her should be abated and barred upon such record being produced in…