SMALLWOOD v. COMMONWEALTH


236 S.W.2d 904 (1951)

SMALLWOOD v. COMMONWEALTH.

Court of Appeals of Kentucky.

February 13, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Howard Holbert, Elizabethtown, for appellant.

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


HELM, Justice.

An indictment was returned against appellant, Ernest Smallwood, charging him with "unlawfully, wilfully and unreasonably neglecting to provide for the support of his minor children" under the age of 14 years. He was found guilty and his punishment fixed at imprisonment in the county jail for four months.

At the trial appellant did not have counsel. The case was argued for the Commonwealth, but not for appellant. At the time judgment was entered...

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