Justice v. State

Sion Justice was put on ■ trial in the city court of Dublin, under an accusation charging him with a misdemeanor. The specific allegation is, that the accused did “ unlawfully deprive of necessary sustenance one William Jordan Justice, a child five and a half years old, the said William Jordan Justice being ill and the said Sion Justice failing and refusing to provide said child with necessary sustenance, the said Sion Justice being the father of said child.” The trial resulted in a verdict of guilty, and the defendant made a motion for a new trial, which being overruled, he excepted. Each…