Law v. State

FOSTER, Justice.

This is a proceeding in the Juvenile Court of Mobile County under section 4480, Code, by which it is a misdemeanor if a parent shall without lawful excuse desert or wilfully neglect or refuse or fail to provide for the support and maintenance of his child under the age of eighteen years. We will call it the non-suppport statute.

It is an enlargement upon the Act of February 18, 1919, page 176. To that Act was added section 4479, Code, by the code committee. By the latter section a parent includes three aspects, (1) when the child is legitimate, (2) when one has become the legal…