Crawford v. State

Quillian, Presiding Judge.

The defendant appeals his conviction for abandonment of a minor child. Held:

1. It is urged that the State failed to prove the abandonment of the minor child in a dependent condition.

The testimony of the State’s witness was that the defendant had never provided support for the child and the defendant admitted this.

“In Georgia, a father is duty-bound and by law he is bound to support his child irrespective of whether the child owns property or has money sufficient to support himself and irrespective of whether the mother may have an estate that is ample to support the…