Legal Opinion

Meek v. Commonwealth

Court of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976)

Decided February 15, 1949PublishedCited by 2 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Cammack

Affirming.

Collie Meek is appealing from a judgment sentencing him to two years in prison for child desertion. Reversal is urged upon the ground the evidence introduced by the Commonwealth was insufficient to sustain a conviction.

Mrs. Meek testified that she had been married to Collie Meek for about 12 years; that she and Collie had been separated for about five years; that for the past two and one-half years she and her four children had been making their home with her father; that under a previous indictment for child desertion Collie had been sentenced to…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Cox v. CommonwealthCourt of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976) · 1939

3Cited by2 opinions

  1. Epp v. StateNevada Supreme Court · 1991
  2. Rogers v. CommonwealthCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1959

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