State v. . Parsons
Supreme Court of North Carolina
This was an issue in bastardy proceedings, tried before Whitaker, J., and a jury, at March Term, 1894, of Wilkes Superior Court. The defendant was found guilty, and ordered to pay a fine of $10 to the State, and an allowance of $85 to the prosecutrix, and costs of the action. Upon defendant being unable to pay said fine, allowance and costs, he was committed to the common jail of Wilkes County.
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This was an issue in bastardy proceedings, tried before Whitaker, J., and a jury, at March Term, 1894, of Wilkes Superior Court. The defendant was found guilty, and ordered to pay a fine of $10 to the State, and an allowance of $85 to the prosecutrix, and costs of the action. Upon defendant being unable to pay said fine, allowance and costs, he was committed to the common jail of Wilkes County. The defendant remained in jail the time required by law, and, upon a proper motion to the Sheriff to that effect, filed his petition before M. McNeill, Clerk of the Superior Court, to be allowed to…
1Opinion of the Court
Avery, J.:
The judgment in the original bastardy proceeding was that the defendant pay a fine of ten dollars, an allowance to the mother of the bastard child, and costs, in accordance with the provisions of section 35 of The Code. Prior to the enactment of section 2, chapter 92, Laws 1879, which was brought forward in the section of The Code referred to, the law (Bat. Rev., ch. 9, sec. 4; Rev. Code, ch. 12, sec. 4) had provided that on the finding of an issue of bastardy against him, the putative father should “ staud charged with the maintenance thereof, as the Court may order.” In State v.…
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