State v. . Tyson

"While the record discloses that at the close of the State’s evidence, upon motion of the solicitor for permission to amend the warrant and put in the word “wilful,” the court allowed the amendment, it nowhere appears in the record that the word “wilful” was ever actually inserted in the warrant.

An examination of the warrant as set forth in the record also reveals that the word “wilful” cannot be inserted anywhere therein and make the charge that the defendant wilfully neglected or refused to support and maintain his illegitimate child. In fact, the warrant was issued before the birth of the…