Ex Parte J.W. Strong

LATTIMORE, Judge.

— By habeas corpus relator attacks the validity of the wife and child desertion law, which is Chapter 9a, Vernon’s P. C., on the ground that Article 640a of said chapter is so indefinitely framed and of such doubtful construction as to be inoperative.

If this be true, then under Article 6, Vernon’s P. C., the law can not be upheld. Article 640a is 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, or any parent who…