Minnix v. State

Carley, Judge.

Appellant appeals from his conviction of misdemeanor child abandonment under Code Ann. § 74-9902.

1. Appellant enumerates as error the denial of his motion for a directed verdict of acquittal. Appellant and the prosecutrix are not married and have never lived together. The accusation charging appellant with abandonment of his illegitimate child alleged that the crime had occurred on December 25, 1978, in Muscogee County, Georgia. However, the evidence at trial demonstrated that on that date the child had been born, not in Georgia, but in Florida. The prosecutrix had apparently…