State v. Levy

The defendant was convicted of vagrancy nnder section 3551, Revised Statutes 1919, particularly under that clause of said section which provides that every able-bodied married man who shall neglect or refuse to provide for the support of his family shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.

The information was filed May 20,1921, and charges that the crime was committed on and prior to May 19, 1921. The family is named as a wife and two children, the children then being ten and eight years of age. The trial was had before the court of criminal correction sitting as a court and jury; the defendant…