State v. Conway

1. Husband and wife : failure to support: willfulness: evidence: sufficiency. -I. The defendant, 27 years of age, is accused of deserting his wife, three years older. That she was then, January 31, 1917, in destitute condition, the jury might well have found; for she had but $3,00, a few articles of furniture in a room they had been occupying, rent of which was paid for six days in advance, and about 30 quarts of fruit and a couple of gallons of piccalilli, shown to have been unsalable, and a vacant lot. State v. Weyant, 149 Iowa 457.- True, she had $30, but could not make use of it,…