Dean v. State

George 0. Dean was indicted for a felony charged to have been committed by abandoning his wife by leaving the State. The jury trying him found him guilty of a felony and fixed his punishment at nine months in the State Penitentiary. The case is here on appeal.

The indictment was returned under act 331 of the Acts of 1923, amending § 2596 of Crawford & Moses’ Digest, General Acts of 1923, page 256. Section 1 of the act reads as follows:

“If any man shall, without good cause, abandon or desert his wife, or abandon his child or children under the age of fourteen years, born in or" legitimatized by…