Graham v. State

This appeal is from a judgment against appellant in a bastardy proceeding instituted and prosecuted against him by one Adella Kelley, under the provisions of chapter 85 (sections 3416-3439) of the Code of Alabama 1923.

The proceedings appear to have been regularly conducted in the manner outlined in the statutory provisions referred to.

However, state’s witness Matilda Kelley, the mother of prosecutrix, was allowed to testify, over appellant’s timely objection that “the defendant (appellant) offered my daughter $130.00 to settle the case and she refused to do it.” Exception was properly…