STATE v. MERCER

No. 10750.

92 S.E.2d 745 (1956)

STATE ex rel. Sharlene Davis CROUSER v. Donald Ray MERCER.

Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.

Decided May 15, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John G. Fox, Atty. Gen., Harold A. Bangert, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Paul E. Parker, Jr., Asst. Pros. Atty., Marion County, Harrison Conaway, Pros. Atty., Marion County, Fairmont, for plaintiff in error.

A. Blake Billingslea, Herschel Rose, Fairmont, for defendant in error.


HAYMOND, Judge.

This bastardy proceeding, in which a warrant for the arrest of the defendant, Donald Ray Mercer, was issued on September 25, 1950, by a justice of the peace of Marion County upon the sworn complaint of the relator, Sharlene Davis Crouser, accusing the defendant as the father of her bastard child born November 3, 1949, was tried and determined in the criminal court of that county on September 24, 1951.

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