Webb v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Chief Justice Logan

Reversing.

Appellant was indicted for the offense of child '•■nonneed by section 33U-1, Ky. Stats. The offense defined is the desertion, or abandonment, of a child under sixteen years of age by the parent, “leaving said child or children in destitute or indigent circumstances and without making proper provision for the board, clothing, education, and proper care of said child or children in a manner suitable to the condition and station in life of said parent and said child or children.”

The wife of appellant left him seven months before the child was…