
    53468.
    In re HALL.
   Bell, Chief Judge.

This is an appeal from the denial of appellant’s petition for adoption of a minor. Held:

1. There is no merit in the contention that the trial court prejudged this case prior to hearing the evidence.

Argued February 1, 1977

Decided March 10, 1977.

Stephen H. Harris, for appellant.

Cail & Achord, John B. Achord, for appellee.

2. The evidence authorized the finding that the natural father did not consent to the adoption; and that he had not forfeited his parental rights by abandoning his child. Thus the judgment of the trial court must be affirmed. Code § 74-403 (2).

Judgment affirmed.

McMurray and Smith, JJ., concur.  