Price v. State

The plaintiff in error, hereinafter called defendant, was convicted in the district court of Murray county on a charge of abandoning his wife and minor children in destitute circumstances, and was sentenced to serve a term of one year in the state penitentiary.

The defendant was charged under the provisions of section 1856, Comp. Stat. 1921, as amended by section 2, chap. 78, of the Session Laws of 1923. The undisputed evidence discloses that on October 13, 1923, defendant left his wife in the town of .Sulphur, who at the time had four children under the age of fifteen years. He went to the…