State v. Langford
Oregon Supreme Court
From Clatsop: James A. Eakin, Judge. In Bane. George H. Langford was convicted of the crime of failure to support his minor child and he appealed. The indictment is dated June 19,1917; it was filed June 20,1917; and it charges that on June 1,1917, in Clatsop County, Oregon, the defendant did “without just or sufficient cause, fail, refuse and neglect to support his said minor child, Wendell Langford.”
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From Clatsop: James A. Eakin, Judge. In Bane. George H. Langford was convicted of the crime of failure to support his minor child and he appealed. The indictment is dated June 19,1917; it was filed June 20,1917; and it charges that on June 1,1917, in Clatsop County, Oregon, the defendant did “without just or sufficient cause, fail, refuse and neglect to support his said minor child, Wendell Langford.” The child’s parents were married on January 28, 1902; Wendell Langford, the child, was-bom on June 2, 1905; and the father and mother were divorced on December 6, 1911. The mother married J. T.…
1Opinion of the CourtHarris, J.
In 1907, the legislature enacted a statute entitled
“An act to punish a person for failing or refusing without just or sufficient cause, to support his wife or children, or to provide for their support”: Chapter 78, Laws 1907.
Section 1, afterwards carried into Lord’s Oregon Laws as Section 2166, reads thus:
“Any man who, without just or sufficient cause, shall fail to support his wife or child shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished therefor by imprisonment in the county jail for not less than thirty days, nor more than one year.”
In 1913, the legislature repealed Chapter…
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