Young v. State

Gardner, J.(a) This case is based on the Code, §§ 74-301—74-303 regarding bastardy proceedings. The justice of the peace on affidavit of the mother, required the putative father to appear before the justice of the peace. After evidence, the justice of the peace issued an order requiring the defendant to give bond for the maintenance of the child until it arrived at the age of fourteen years. At the time the proceedings were instituted the child was not born. The father refused to give the bond. Thereupon the judicial officer issuing the writ under the proceedings required of the defendant an…