Rednour v. Commonwealth

Judge Cammack

Reversing.

Jesse M. Rednour was sentenced to one year in prison for child desertion under KRS 435.240(1).

The grounds urged for reversal are (1) the indictment was fatally defective because it failed to allege that the deserted children were residents of the State; and (2) Rednour was entitled to a peremptory instruction, because the evidence was insufficient to show that the children were left in indigent and destitute circumstances.

We think the evidence was amply sufficient to support the verdict. Witnesses for the Commonwealth said Rednour failed to provide for his four…