Nelson v. State

(After stating the' foregoing facts.) Code § 74-9902 was repealed by the act of the General Assembly (Ga. L. 1946, pp. 63, 64), and was, by the same legislation re-enacted in terms as follows:' “If any father or mother shall wilfully and voluntarily abandon his or her child leaving it in a dependent condition, he or she, as the case may be, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. The wife and husband shall be competent witnesses, in such cases to testify for or against the other. A child thus abandoned by the father or mother shall be considered to be in a dependent condition when the father or…