Mays v. Commonwealth

STANLEY, Commissioner.

We have a motion for an appeal by Brooks Edward Mays from a judgment convicting him of the offense of knowingly causing or contributing to conditions which cause a child to “become delinquent, neglected, dependent needy or charged with a crime.” KRS 208.020(3)(a). His penalty was fixed at a fine of $100 and a jail sentence of thirty days. The motion is sustained and the appeal granted. Cr.Code, §§ 347, 348.

The prelude of the case is that in a bastardy proceeding in the Boyd County *111Court a jury found Mays to be the father of an illegitimate child of Rita Robbins, and that…