Before Hon. C. J. Ramage, special Judge, Florence, March, 1914. The defendant, Luke Adams, indicted for bastardy. At the June, 1914, term of the Court of Sessions for Florence county the defendant was tried under this indictment. A jury was empaneled, and his Honor, Judge C. J. Ramage, upon learning that it was a bastardy case, ordered the Court room cleared of all negroes and boys. There were present the usual number of spectators.
Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know
Affirmed · Decided 1915-02-11
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently May 1969
2 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
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The defendant was convicted under an indictment charging him with being the father of a bastard child.
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The prosecutrix and three other witnesses testified for the State.
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The defendant did not testify, nor offer any testimony.
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He appealed upon'exceptions, which, will be reported.
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The first exception cannot be sustained, for the reason that it lias not been made to appear that the discretion of his Honor, the presiding Judge, was erroneously exercised.
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The second exception must be overruled, for the reason that the testimony tended to show the relations between the defendant and the mother of the child, and that he had the opportunity of being the child’s father.
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The third exception cannot be sustained, as there were facts and circumstances from which the inference could be drawn that the child was likely to become a burden to the county.
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The fourth exception will not be considered, as it fails to specify in what particulars the charge therein quoted was erroneous.
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The fifth exception cannot be sustained, for the reason that the prosecutrix did not occupy towards the defendant the relation of an accomplice.
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Footnote.—See notes in 9 Am. & Eng. Ann. Cas. 111, and 20
Ib.
632, and in 9 L. R. A. (N. S.) and 27
Ib.
487 as to right of Court to exclude the public from court room during a criminal trial.
