State ex rel. Emery v. Christensen

*193The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, J.:

This was a prosecution for bastardy under the statute, R. S. 62-2301 et seq.

On October 14, 1928, Gertrude L. Emery, an unmarried woman, twenty-one years of age, resident of Rawlins county, was delivered of a bastard child, and on January 14, 1929, she made a verified complaint before a justice of the peace in Atwood township, Rawlins county, charging that the defendant, Chris Christensen, was the child’s father.

The justice of the peace held a preliminary inquiry and required the defendant to enter into a recognizance with sureties for his…