Bull v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Abandonment of children. Before Judge Hines. Emanuel superior court. November term, 1887. R. J. Bull was tried in the county court of Emanuel county for abandoning his child, was convicted, and carried the case to the superior court by certiorari, which on the hearing, was dismissed.
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Abandonment of children. Before Judge Hines. Emanuel superior court. November term, 1887. R. J. Bull was tried in the county court of Emanuel county for abandoning his child, was convicted, and carried the case to the superior court by certiorari, which on the hearing, was dismissed. It appears from the answer of the judge of the-county court, which was not traversed nor excepted to, that Bull was married under pressure of prosecution for seduction and bastardy ; that he left his wife the next day and has not lived with her since; that the child was born three or four months after the…
1Opinion of the Court
Bleckley, Chief Justice.
The statute under which Bull was convicted reads as follows : “ If any father shall wilfully and voluntarily abandon his children, leaving them in a dependent and destitute condition, such father shall be guilty of a misdemeanor,” etc. Code, §4373. “ Coming events cast their shadows before,” and Bull, seeing that he was soon to have a child born in lawful wedlock, .commenced the act of abandonment immediately after the celebration of his nuptials. Had he not continued the act so as to complete it after the birth of the child, he would not have committed any offence,…
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