State v. . Manon

Tbe defendant was convicted of tbe abandonment and nonsupport of bis wife, in breach of C. S., 4447, and from tbe judgment pronounced be appealed to tbe Supreme Court. He assigned as error tbe court’s refusal to dismiss tbe action, to direct a verdict against tbe State, and to instruct tbe jury that if tbey should find from tbe evidence that tbe abandonment took place in Eeno, Nevada, and not in North Carolina, their verdict should be not guilty.

These assignments are based upon tbe assumption either that tbe evidence necessarily shows or that there is evidence tending to show that tbe act of…