REDNOUR v. COMMONWEALTH


229 S.W.2d 446 (1950)

312 Ky. 676

REDNOUR v. COMMONWEALTH.

Court of Appeals of Kentucky.

April 25, 1950.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Raymond B. Dycus, Smithland, for appellant.

A. E. Funk, Atty. Gen., John B. Browning, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.


CAMMACK, Justice.

Jesse M. Rednour was sentenced to one year in prison for child desertion under KRS 435.240(1).

The grounds urged for reversal are (1) the indictment was fatally defective because it failed to allege that the deserted children were residents of the State; and (2) Rednour was entitled to a peremptory instruction, because the evidence was insufficient to show that the children were left in indigent and destitute circumstances.

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