Cleveland v. State

We will elaborate only the proposition announced in the second headnote. The defendant put his wife and two minor children on the train at Gainesville and sent them to Floyd county, promising to join them in a short time. He never fulfilled his promise, and never in any wise thereafter contributed to the support of the children, but left them in a state of dependency. He was indicted in Floyd county. The point he makes is that he should have been indicted and tried in Hall county, in which Gainesville is located.

In Bennefield v. State, 80 Ga. 107 (4 S. E. 869), it was held that where a father…