State v. Burton

This cause was originally appealed to and decided by the St. Louis Court of Appeals, and certified to us for final determination because one member of that court deemed the majority opinion to be in conflict with the decision of the Kansas City Court of Appeals in the case of Marolf v. Marolf, 191 Mo. App. 239.

The ease involves the correct construction of section 4789, Revised Statutes 1909, and its application to the facts here disclosed. The substantive part of *63the charge is that defendant, being an able-bodied married man, did wilfully neglect and refuse to provide for the support of his…