Dyal v. State

Whitman, Judge.

In May of 1966 the appellant, James Dyal, was convicted of abandonment of an illegitimate minor child and was sentenced to twelve months confinement with such confinement suspended upon condition that he make periodic payments of a certain sum for the support of the child until it reached the age of eighteen years. No motion for new trial was made. There was no appeal from the judgment of conviction and sentence.

In March of 1969, Dyal filed an extraordinary motion for new trial which was denied. Dyal appealed from the order denying his extraordinary motion and enumerates the…