Dean v. State

Plaintiff in error, hereinafter called defendant, was convicted in the district court of Tillman county of wife and. child abandonment, and his punishment fixed at imprisonment for a term of two years. The prosecution is under section 1830, Okla. Stat. 1931, which is:

“Every person who shall without good cause abandon his wife in destitute or necessitous circumstances and neglect and refuse to maintain or provide for her, or who shall abandon his or her minor child or children under the age of fifteen years and willfully neglect or refuse to maintain or provide for such child or children,…