Butler v. Commonwealth

Kelly, P.,

delivered the opinion of the court.

[1, 2] The defendant, L. C. Butler, upon appeal from a sentence of the Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court of the city of Norfolk, was tried by a jury in the Corporation Court of that city and found “guilty of willful neglect to support his two infant children, then in destitute and necessitous circumstances,” the punishment being fixed at a fine of five hundred dollars. The court, having first overruled a motion made by the defendant for a new trial on the .ground that the verdict was contrary to the law and the evidence, rendered judgment in…