Brantley v. State

Whitman, Judge.

1. It is not error in a prosecution of one for abandonment of an illegitimate minor child, where the defendant has pled “not guilty,” thereby raising the issue of paternity, to admit in evidence a plea by the defendant of “guilty” to a prior accusation for abandonment of the same child. Culpepper v. State, 120 Ga. App. 62 (169 SE2d 681).

In this case, a prosecution for abandonment, the State sought to show that the defendant Brantley had previously plead “guilty” to an abandonment accusation involving the same child and to that end there was introduced and admitted in evidence…