State v. Bell
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Appeal by defendant from Allen, J., at March Term, 1922, of VaNce. On 20 December, 1921, Mabel K. Bell made an affidavit before a justice of the peace of Nance County that tbe defendant, her divorced husband, had willfully abandoned . and failed and refused to support his four children, of the age of four, six, eight, and eleven years, respectively; and thereupon she obtained a warrant under which the defendant was arrested and afterward bound to the Superior Court.
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Appeal by defendant from Allen, J., at March Term, 1922, of VaNce. On 20 December, 1921, Mabel K. Bell made an affidavit before a justice of the peace of Nance County that tbe defendant, her divorced husband, had willfully abandoned . and failed and refused to support his four children, of the age of four, six, eight, and eleven years, respectively; and thereupon she obtained a warrant under which the defendant was arrested and afterward bound to the Superior Court. At the March Term, 1922, the grand jury returned a true bill containing three counts charging the defendant (1) with the willful…
1ConcurrenceClark, C. J.
S., 4447, provides:. “Abandonment of family by husband. If any husband shall willfully abandon his wife without providing adequate support for such wife, and the children which he may have begotten upon her, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor” ; and C. S., 4449, provides: "Order of support from husband's property or earnings. Upon any conviction for abandonment, any judge or any recorder having jurisdiction thereof may, in his discretion, make such order as in his judgment will best provide for the support, as far as may be necessary, of the deserted wife or children, or both, from the…
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