Goddard v. State

At the September, 1904, term of the district court for Chase county, an information was filed against the plaintiff in error, by which it was attempted to charge him with the crime of wife desertion. After pleading not guilty, his counsel filed a motion to quash the information, a plea in abatement, and a motion to require the state to separately state and number the two offenses, which he claimed were set forth in the information. All of these motions and objections were overruled. A trial was had, which resulted in a conviction. The accused was thereupon sentenced to the penitentiary for a…