Stancil v. State

Banke, Judge.

The appellant was convicted of abandoning his three minor children. On appeal he enumerates as error several rulings of the trial court concerning the admissibility of testimony. He also contends that the verdict is unsupported by the evidence and that a mistrial should have been declared as a result of the solicitor’s closing argument. Held:

1. Appellant’s former wife, the mother and custodian of the children, asked on cross examination by appellant’s counsel why she had ceased to allow appellant to visit the children, responded that appellant had told the children “he was going…