Ward v. State

Krueger, Judge.

Conviction is for the offense of wife desertion. Punishment is assessed at confinement in the state penitentiary for two years.

It appears from the record that on the 30th day of October, 1937, appellant and Mavis Chesshire, a girl of 16 years of age, were legally married. Appellant and prosecutrix were reared in the same community and prior to their marriage, he had been paying her much attention by carrying her to parties on several occasions. On the day following the marriage, he left her and went to Oklahoma without telling her where he was going or when he expected to…