Lawson v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge.

Conviction for child desertion; punishment, two years in the penitentiary.

This is the first appeal to reach us from a conviction under the new law making a felony of the offense of desertion of wife or child. The facts in this case are very unusual and peculiar. Appellant seems to have been a laborer and separated from his wife, she taking their two minor children, and their two cows, and apparently whatever of household goods they may have possessed. The money of the family at the time of such separation seems to have consisted of ten dollars, seven of which appellant…