State v. Hasty

Birdsong, Judge.

The state, who is the appellant here, brought a petition to revoke a suspended sentence handed down to Hasty in 1971 for child abandonment. The 1971 court order decreed that Hasty’s “sentence is suspended until the 21st birthday of the youngest child ... or until such time as further ordered by the Court, upon condition that” Hasty pay certain amounts as child support.

At the hearing on the instant petition in 1980, Hasty contended *465that as the present age of majority in Georgia, since 1972, is 18 and not 21, he could not be required to pay child support after the youngest child…