Case Name: Stone v. The State
Court: Court of Appeals of Georgia
Jurisdiction: Georgia
Decision Date: 1919-07-10
Citations: 24 Ga. App. 67
Docket Number: 10598
Parties: Stone v. The State.
Judges: Broyles, P. J., and Bloodworth, J., concur.
Reporter: Georgia Appeals Reports
Volume: 24
Pages: 67–67

Head Matter:
10598.
Stone v. The State.
Decided July 10, 1919.
Accusation of bastardy; from city court of Baxley—Judge Lawrence. March 6, 1919.
Padgett & Watson, for plaintiff in error.
G. H. Parker, solictor, J. B. Moore, contra.

Opinion:
Stephens, J.
1. An accusation under Section 682 of the Penal Code, charging the offense of bastardy, which fails to allege distinctly that the defendant is the father of a bastard child, is fatally defective. A recital in the accusation that the prosecutrix had made an affidavit before a justice of the peace that the defendant was the father of a bastard child does not amount to an allegation that the defendant is the father of such child. Locke v. State, 3 Ga. 534; Hudson v. State, 104 Ga. 723 (30 S. E. 947).
2. The motion in arrest of judgment should have been sustained.
Judgment reversed.
Broyles, P. J., and Bloodworth, J., concur.