Small v. State

The appellant was charged by affidavit with failing to provide his minor son with the necessities of life in violation of § 10-1402, Burns’ 1933.

The record discloses that the minor was born in 1934 to the prosecuting witness who was then unmarried; that the appellant was charged with being the father of the child in a proper proceeding prior to the birth of the child; that the appellant admitted the charge to be true but for some reason not disclosed the bastardy proceedings was dismissed; that some months after the dismissal of that proceeding the mother and the appellant were married and…