Roney v. State

Appellant was convicted of a violation of section 861, Code of 1930, which is the statute which makes it a felony for a parent to desert or willfully neglect or refuse to provide for the support and maintenance of his or her child or children under the age of sixteen years, leaving such child or children in destitute or necessitous circumstances. The principal defense of appellant was that the two children were not his, but were the illegitimate children of some other father; and he so testified as a witness in his own defense.

The evidence is sufficient to sustain the verdict, and we have…