Smith v. State

1. Any father who wilfully and voluntarily abandons his child before it is born, and persists in the abandonment afterwards, leaving it in a dependent condition, is guilty of a misdemeanor. Bull v. State, 80 Ga. 704 (6 S. E. 178) ; Moore v. State, 1 Ga. App. 502 (2) (57 S. E. 1016); Penal Code (1910), § 116; Daniels v. State, 8 Ga. App. 469 (69 S. E. 588).

2. In a prosecution against a father for the abandonment of his child, it is no valid defense to show' that the father was less than seventeen years of age when he married the mother of the child. The offense of abandonment is complete when…