Barrios v. State

MORROW, Judge.

Appellant was convicted for desertion of his wife and child under article 640a, P. C.

Appellant and his alleged wife were married in Texas in 1914, and that he abandoned her is a conceded fact which he justifies on various grounds, among them, that she was not his wife. This is based upon the alleged fact that he married her believing she was a maiden, but that she was in fact the wife of another man living. She married a man named Zapata in 1905. He killed her father in 1906 and fled to Mexico. Her mother, since deceased, went to Mexico and claimed to have learned that Zapata…