Colling v. State

Plaintiff in error, hereinafter referred to as defendant,, was prosecuted upon an information charging him with wilfully and without just cause abandoning and neglecting- and refusing to support his wife and two minor children, aged 13 and 17 years. A trial resulted in a conviction and a judgment, sentencing him to imprisonment for six months at hard labor in the county jail. To review the' record of his conviction he prosecutes error to this court.

Defendant urges that the offense of which he was convicted was barred by the statute of limitations, and for that reason the verdict is not…