State v. . Mansfield

The defendant introduced no evidence, and at the close of the State’s evidence made a motion for judgment of nonsuit. C. S., 4643. The court below overruled this motion, and in this we can see no error.

Public Laws of North Carolina, 1933, ch. 228, sec. 1, is as follows: “Any parent who wilfully neglects or who refuses to support and maintain his or her illegitimate child shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and .subject to such penalties as are hereinafter provided. A child, within tbe meaning of this act, shall be any person less than ten years of age, and any person whom either parent might be…