Burt v. State ex rel. Cook

Bicknell, C. C.

— This was a prosecution for bastardy. The’ child was born June 25th, 1876. On December 13th, 1877,, a complaint was filed and a wai’rant was issued, which was never returned; complaint and warrant were both lost; the defendant could not be found; he left the county on March 31st, 1877, and went to Kansas February 27th, 1878, and was absent from this State more than a year. On May 31st, 1879,, a substituted complaint was filed and a substituted warrant was issued, on which the defendant was arrested. He moved before the justice to quash the warrant. The motion was, overruled.…