Hunt v. State

Carlisle, Judge.

The defendant was charged with the abandonment of his minor illegitimate child. The jury found him guilty and he filed a motion for a new trial on the general grounds and one special ground which was denied, and the exception here is to that judgment.

1. In the prosecution of one charged with abandonment of an illegitimate child under the provision of Code § 74-9902, as amended by the act approved March 17, 1956 (Ga. L. 1956, p. 800), one of the issues is paternity. It is competent as to this issue for the mother to exhibit the child to the jury. Sims v. State, 16 Ga. App. 211…