Cawthorn v. State

Where a child has been born, and the unmarried mother has fully recovered from her confinement before the trial of the putative father in the bastardy proceedings before a justice of the peace, “the bond required by the terms of the law is simply a bond to indemnify the county against a possible charge for the maintenance and education of the child until it arrives at the age of fourteen years.” Thomason v. State, 18 Ga. App. 331 (89 S. E. 436), and cit. Where the mother is not fully recovered from her illness incident to childbirth, the bond required by law is one for the maintenance and…