Smith v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge.

Appellant was convicted in the County Court of Bexar County of wife desertion, and his punishment fixed at ninety days in the county jail.

Appellant married a woman several years older than himself and shortly thereafter went away to the world war. He testified that he was gassed while in action in said war and that since his return home had been practically incapable of earning a living. He was charged by information on or about the first day of August, 1922, that he had without justification abandoned, neglected and failed to provide for the support and maintenance of said…