State v. Baugh

— The indictment in this case is based upon Section 4775-a of the 1913 Code Supplement, which, so far as material, is as follows:

“Every person [meaning parent] who shall, without good cause, willfully neglect or refuse # * * to provide for such child or children they being in a destitute condition, shall be deemed guilty of desertion. # * *”

Appellant and his wife, who are the parents of two small children, are divorced, and had been for some months, at the time of the trial. The mother, prosecutrix herein, with her children, resides at the home of her parents on a farm about one-half mile…