Edwards v. State

The defendant, Joe Edwards, was charged by information filed in the district court of Oklahoma county, on October 23, 1945, with the abandonment and failure to provide for his minor children, Melvin Joe Edwards and Robert Lee Edwards, age three years and two years, respectively. A jury was waived, the defendant was tried, found guilty and sentenced to serve two years imprisonment in the State Penitentiary, which sentence was suspended during the good behavior of the defendant.

The sole proposition presented by the appeal is whether the evidence is sufficient to sustain the judgment of…