Thompson v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge.

Conviction for wife desertion; punishment, six months in the county jail, and a fine of $500.00.

Appellant, a twenty-year-old boy, married a sixteen-year-old girl. Neither of them had any money or other property. He was living with his father on a ranch at the time, and she with her father and mother on á farm. The couple were accompanied to Carlsbad, New Mexico, where the marriage took place, by the Bedells, — a sister and brother-in-law of the bride.. The girl’s mother, Mrs. Brown, was at the Bedells when the-party left, and was apparently willing for the marriage to…