Pickren v. State

The accused was convicted of abandoning his minor children in Wayne County, Georgia. While the evidence disclosed that he first abandoned the children in Appling County and that the state of their dependency upon others began in that county, there was other evidence which authorized the jury to find that subsequently he renewed his relationship to his family by cohabitation with his wife in Wayne County and by contributing in that county a small sum. of money for the support of the children and promising his wife further support for them, and that he failed to keep his promise and abandoned…