J.C. v. Natural Parents

417 So.2d 529 (1982)

In re Adoption of a Minor Child J.C. and N.C.

v.

NATURAL PARENTS, Scott County Welfare Department, D.E.S. and J.A.S., Intervenors.

No. 53321.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

March 10, 1982.

Rehearing Denied August 11, 1982.

Jerry L. Bustin, Forest, for appellants.

Garland D. Upton, Columbia, Joseph A. Gentile, Jackson, for appellee.

En Banc.

DAN M. LEE, Justice, for the Court:

This appeal evolves from the Chancery Court of Scott County wherein J.C. and N.C.[1], appellants, sought to adopt an infant child born November 21, 1980, and placed in their home on January 8, 1981, by the Scott…