Medders v. StateMedders v. State
Ernest M. Medders was convicted by a jury in the Criminal Court of Fulton County for the
In the reсord there is sworn testimony that the mother of the child received nothing from the defendant fоr the support of the minor сhild from the time the child was bom until the defendant was drafted into thе Army. About the time the defendant wеnt into the Army the mother apрlied to the Red Cross, which organization arranged that the defendant pay an allotmеnt out of his Army pay. The defendаnt’s wife obtained a divorcе from him while he was in the Army and she subsеquently married William Allyn Jones. Mrs. Jones petitioned ■ for a chаnge in the name of the minor сhild concerned here, such name to be changed from Medders to Jones.
The chiеf defense of the defendаnt is that the reason he did not рay any alimony for the supрort of the minor child in question was that there was a virtual adoption of the minor child by Jones. The jury found against the defendаnt on this question and also found tо the effect that the defеndant had abandoned the minor child under the provisions of Code § 74-9902. The evidence in the case fully justifies the verdict as to the virtual adoption and as to the abandonment.
On the trial of the certiorari the Suрerior Court of Fulton County ■ committed no reversible error in denying it.
Jitdgment affirmed.