State v. Wood

Lees, C.

Charged with the offense of failing to support his four minor children, defendant was found guilty by a jury and appealed from the judgment.

The record discloses these facts: The mother of the children died in the year 1922, leaving them in the care of Phoebe Cambern, their maternal grandmother. The oldest child is 13 and the youngest five years of age. Defendant remarried two months after the death of the children’s mother. He had steady employment in a garage in Minneapolis, where he earned $30 a week until August 20, 1925, when he quit work and went to Florida. After he left…