Wade v. State

The defendant was indicted and convicted under section 3188 of the Code of 1923, which reads as follows;

“Any person who unlawfully takes or decoys away any child -with intent to detain or conceal it from its parents, guardian, or other person having the lawful charge of it, or who unlawfully detains any child from its parents, guardian or other person having lawful charge of it, must, on conviction, be imprisoned in the county jail, or sentenced to hard labor for the county, for not more than two years.”

The facts upon which the conviction was had are: Yergie Thompson, a girl child about three…