Cosby v. State

Defendant, Jack W. Cosby, was charged in the district court of Bryan county with the crime of wife and child abandonment; was tried, convicted and sentenced to serve a term of ten years in the State Penitentiary, and has appealed.

For a reversal of this case it is contended:

“(1) The information is duplicitous in that two separate offenses, i. e., (1) abandonment of wife, and (2) abandonment of child under the age of 3 years, are charged in the information.

“(2) Error of the court in refusing to submit the defendant’s requested instruction No. 2 relating to proof of paternity of minor child born…