Brock v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Thomas

Reversing.

The grand jury of Leslie county on June 7, 1924, returned an indictment against appellant, Henry Brock, charging him with the offense denounced in section 33-li-l of the 1922 edition of Carroll’s Kentucky Statutes, commonly known as ‘ ‘ Child Desertion. ’ ’ Upon his trial, he was convicted and sentenced to serve a term of one year in the penitentiary. The court declined to set aside the verdict upon a motion made for that purpose and pronounced judgment thereon, to reverse which this appeal is prosecuted.

Under the statute the offense consists in…