Garrett v. State

The indictment in this case charges J. O. Garrett with abandoning his minor child, J. O. Garrett Jr., on January 15, 1927, in Cherokee county, Georgia. He was convicted, and he excepts to the refusal of a new trial.

Counsel for the plaintiff in error insists “that the State failed to show venue in Cherokee county, Ga., and that, if this defendant ever abandoned his minor child at all, he did so in the State of Pennsylvania, and not in the State of Georgia.” Mrs. J. O. Garrett testified that she and the defendant married in the year 1917, and had two children, J. O. Garrett Jr., born in 1918,…