State v. Sansome

This is an appeal by the state from a judgment of the circuit court of Warren county sustaining a demurrer to an indictment charging a husband with desertion or failure to support his wife and children in destitute or necessitous circumstances, under chapter 212, Laws of, 1920, which malíes such an offense a felony punishable by imprisonment in the penitentiary. The demurrer was sustained upon the t ground that the act of the legislature is void as being in conflict with several sections of the state Constitution.

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