Nobles v. State

This is an appeal from a conviction of the crime of deserting, neglecting, and refusing to support minor children, as denounced by Mississippi Code of 1942, Section 2087.

Appellant, her husband, and children lived near Baxterville in Lamar County. In 1950, appellant and her husband, W. E. Nobles, father of the minor children, signed up for welfare payments, and thereafter appellant received from $20 to $40 per month welfare aid until the early part of 1953, when this aid was cut off because appellant was not staying at home with the children. In January, 1951, appellant, pursuant to an…