State v. Nichols

The defendant, Nichols was tried in the district court of Polk county, Iowa, under an indictment, charging that he had deserted his children. At the close of all the evidence, the defendant moved the court to direct a verdict in his favor, and this motion was sustained and judgment entered discharging defendant. From this judgment the state appeals.

The evidence showed without dispute that the defendant and the mother of the children were married at Boone, Iowa, in 1925; that they lived in Des Moines thereafter, and that they then moved to Little Rock, Arkansas. The defendant’s wife returned…