Blackwell v. State

Marvin Blackwell was indicted by the .grand jurors of Murray county for abandonment “for that the said Marvin Blackwell on the 10th day of February, in the year 1931 . . did then and there unlawfully and with force and arms did wilfully and voluntarily abandon his minor child Jimmie Blackwell, age four years, leaving it in a dependent condition.” Upon arraignment at the February term, 1932, of Murray superior cpurt he filed a plea of former conviction, — “that at a former term of this court, to wit, February term, 1930, he entered a plea of guilty of the offense of abandonment, and paid fine…