Kirkland v. State

This writ of error was taken to a judgment of conviction of the defendant of the statutory offense of deserting and withholding the means of support from his minor child. Sec. 5496, Rev. Gen. Stats., 1920. One of the issues was the defendant’s paternity of the child, which was born seven months after the marriage of its mother and the defendant. If under the authority of Flores v. State, 72 Fla. 302, 73 South. Rep. 234; Williams v. State, 80 Fla. 286, 85 South. Rep. 917, it was error to overrule a motion without stating grounds to strike a question addressed to the wife of the defendant while…