White v. State

Birdsong, Judge.

Thomas White was prosecuted under an accusation charging him with wilful abandonment of a minor illegitimate child. Though we do not have a transcript, it appears that White moved pursuant to Code Ann. § 74-9902 (h) to question parentage by means of the blood tests authorized in that section. The statute provides in substance that if parentage is contested, the putative father may request blood tests made of himself, the child and the child’s mother as well as the necessary expert interpretation of those tests. The cost at least initially will be born by the father. White was…