JORDAN, Judge.
The defendant was convicted in the City Court of Sandersville of the offense of abandonment. His amended motion for new trial was denied, and the exception is to that judgment. Held:
1. The trial court did not err, as contended in special ground 1, in allowing the prosecutrix to hold her baby in her arms while sitting at counsel table and to exhibit it to the jury while testifying over the objection of defendant's counsel that the baby had not been introduced in evidence nor for any other reasons assigned. The defendant denied being the father of the child, making paternity an issue in the case. Hunt v. State, 101 Ga. App. 126 ( 112 S.E.2d 817).
2. The refusal to declare a mistrial because of a voluntary statement made by a witness for the State on direct examination, which statement was not responsive to the question propounded by the solicitor, was not error, as contended in special ground 2, where the statement was promptly excluded and the jury instructed to disregard it. Callahan v. State, 209 Ga. 211 (1) ( 71 S.E.2d 86); Carrigan v. State, 206 Ga. 707 (3) ( 58 S.E.2d 407); Burns v. State, 191 Ga. 60 (9) ( 11 S.E.2d 350); Holley v. State, 191 Ga. 804 (4) ( 14 S.E.2d 103); Thompson v. State, 58 Ga. App. 593 (1) ( 199 S.E. 568); Flournoy v. State, 82 Ga. App. 518 (1) ( 61 S.E.2d 556).
3. The general grounds have been abandoned.
Judgment affirmed. Nichols, P. J., and Frankum, J., concur.
DECIDED MAY 16, 1963.