State Ex Rel. Sargent v. Tahash

Murphy, Justice.

This is an appeal from an order discharging a writ of habeas corpus. At the time defendant petitioned for the writ, he was in custody of the state pursuant to a sentence on a prosecution for child abandonment. Minn. St. 1961, § 617.55. On October 16, 1963, he was arraigned on an information charging that on February 20, 1959, he abandoned and failed to care for and support a minor child for whom he had legal responsibility and that “the said William Sargent has ever since continued to so abandon and avoid his legal responsibility, for the care and support of- said child.”

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