Vance v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the circuit court of Forrest county. Hon. Paul B. Johnson, Judge. H. S. Vance was convicted of vagrancy and appeals. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court. At the special July term of the circuit court of Forrest county, Misissippi, H. S. Vance was tried, and convicted on a charge of vagranccy.
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Appeal from the circuit court of Forrest county. Hon. Paul B. Johnson, Judge. H. S. Vance was convicted of vagrancy and appeals. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court. At the special July term of the circuit court of Forrest county, Misissippi, H. S. Vance was tried, and convicted on a charge of vagranccy. The said alleged vagrancy consisted of the desertion of his wife and children, and he was- sentenced to serve thirty days in the county jail.' Before defendant was placed on trial a plea in bar of former jeopardy showing specifically a trial by a jury in a court of…
1Opinion of the CourtReed, J.
Appellant was tried and convicted on a charge of vagrancy, in this: that being a married man, and having a wife and child, he did unlawfully abandon his family, *232and refuse to maintain and support them, and left them in danger of becoming a public charge. In the circuit court, upon the trial of his case on an appeal from the conviction in the justice of the peace court, appellant interposed a plea of former jeopardy, in which he set forth an acquittal on the same charge in a former trial during the year 1908. A demurrer to this plea was sustained. He states in the plea that his wife had…
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