Commonwealth v. Tobin

Opinion of the Court by

Judge O’Beár

Affirming.

A general demurrer was sustained to the following *262indictment, and the Commonwealth appeals:

“The grand jury of the county of Bourbon in the name and by the authority of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, accuse Claude Tobin of the crime of willfully (and without such cause as constitutes a statutory ground for divorce-to the husband) abandoning and deserting a female twenty-one years of age, whom he had seduced under promise of marriage, within three years after the marriage committed as follows, viz:

“The said Claude Tobin, in the said county of Bourbon…