Verse v. State

MORROW, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of wife desertion. The statute upon which the prosecution was founded is article 640a, Vernon’s Ann. P. C. (Acts of 1913, p. 188, chap. 101, sec. 1), which we quote as follows:

“That any husband who shall wilfully or without justification, desert, neglect or refuse to provide for the support and maintenance of his wife, who may be in destitute or necessitous 'circumstances shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction thereof shall (be) . punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars and not more than five hundred dollars or by…