Young v. State

Deen, Presiding Judge.

The defendant was tried and convicted of abandonment of his minor child in the State Court of DeKalb County (formerly the Civil Court of DeKalb County). The evidence shows that he ceased paying child support under a divorce decree in December, 1976, after his wife’s remarriage; that he signed a consent to adoption prepared by her lawyer in favor of her new husband and the adoption proceeding was filed in March or April; that the parties later separated, however, and the petition was dismissed in July, 1977; that nothing has been paid except for $100 paid since this suit…