Floyd v. State

In this case plaintiff in error was charged with the offense of deserting his minor child and withholding from said child the means of support.

There is no testimony in the record showing that the defendant either had or could procure employment by which he could provide for the support of the child. The testimony shows that the defendant in the court below and his wife, who was the prosecuting witness in the case, were married sometime in 1929 and the child was born April 21, 1930. The record further shows that the wife, both before and after her marriage, lived with her parents and that she…