Stephens v. State

The appellant was tried and convicted in the Howard Circuit Court on an indictment which, in apt language, charged him with the crime of wife desertion, under § 2596 of C. & M. Digest, as amended hy act 336 of the Acts of 1923. The facts are substantially as follows:

Mrs. Hershell Stephens testified that she married the appellant on the 25th of April, 1924, when she was fifteen years old. They went immediately to the home of appellant’s parents at Mineral Springs, Howard County, Arkansas, and had lived there until the day before the indictment was returned against appellant, which was the 27th…