Charvin v. State

Carley, Judge.

Appellant was tried before a jury on an accusation charging him with abandonment of a child, a violation of OCGA § 19-10-1. The jury found that appellant was the father of the child and that he was guilty of abandonment. He appeals from the judgment of conviction and sentence entered on the jury’s verdict.

The trial court granted the State’s motion in limine, limiting inquiry into the topic of the past sexual activities of the child’s mother to such conduct as had occurred within the one-year period of time prior to the birth of the child. On appeal, the granting of the State’s…