Turner v. Commonwealth

MOREMEN, Chief Justice.

Appellant, George Turner, was convicted of willfully deserting his four infant children, an offense denounced by KRS 435-240, and was sentenced to two years’ confinement in the penitentiary.

Appellant urges as grounds for reversal that: (1) a verdict should have been directed for him at the conclusion of the commonwealth’s testimony; (2) competent evidence was rejected; (3) a witness was permitted, over objection of appellant, to testify about another offense unconnected with the crime for which he was being tried; (4) the instructions were erroneous in that the jury was…