Supreme Court of South Carolina May 15, 1810 (State v. Clark)

About the 1st of May,

Waties, J.,

delivered the opinion of the whole court. That the question intended to be tried by the jury was, whether the defendant was the father of a bastard child, begotten on the body of a white woman. The indictment ought to *388have charged that the mother of the bastard was a white woman. The indictment charges the mother to be a single woman.