Lincks v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Commissioner Hobson—

Reversing.

John Lincks was indicted in the Laurel circuit court for the crime of willfully and feloniously deserting, abandoning, and leaving his infant child, John Luther Lincks, under the age of 16 years, in indigent and destitute circumstances, without making any provision for the care, board, or clothing of the child, under section 331i, Kentucky‘Statutes. On the trial of the case he was found guilty, and his punishment fixed at one year in the penitentiary. The facts shown by the record are these:

John Lincks and the mother of the child were…