Glad v. State

Code § 74-9902 provides: “If any father shall wilfully and voluntarily abandon his child, leaving it in a dependent condition, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.” Therefore, to constitute abandonment and to render valid the defendant’s conviction thereof, two material facts must appear: (1) that the father wilfully and voluntarily abandoned or deserted the- child, and (2) that the child was left by reason thereof in a dependent condition. See Blackwell v. State, 48 Ga. App. 221 (172 S. E. 670). It has been held that, where the father deserted the children in a State other than Georgia and…