Brown v. State

It is unfortunately true that some husbands do not comply with the legal and highly moral obligation imposed upon them to support their wives. It is punishment enough for a woman to espouse a man unwilling to support her. If he can and won’t the law will compel him, and will excuse the woman for not doing that which the husband is bound to perform for her. Certainly she is not to be classed as a vagrant merely because she relies upon compliance by her husband with the obligation imposed upon him by law. Married women are often compelled to supplement the income which the ostensible head of…