Nesbit v. State

Eberhardt, Judge.

1. Where the prosecutrix resided in Lee County, but went to a hospital in Dougherty County where her child was born and upon dismission from the hospital took the child back to her residence in Lee County and remained there, and the defendant, the putative father, at no time supported or contributed to the support of the child, venue of a prosecution for abandonment was properly laid in Lee County. Mere temporary absence from that county during the lying-in period at the hospital does not require a finding that the offense was committed in the county where the hospital was…