Brooker v. Mayo

TERRELL, Justice.

Petitioner was tried and convicted on an information wherein the first count charged that he (petitioner) did unlawfully withhold support from his two minor children from August 15, 1952, to November 25, 1953. In the second count it was charged that petitioner did unlawfully desert his two minor children from August 15, 1953, to November 25, 1953. It accordingly appears from the record that the desertion took place one year after withholding support. He was sentenced to one year in the penitentiary on each count. He challenges the judgment so imposed by habeas corpus.

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