People v. Hamil

This is an appeal by the defendant from a judgment of conviction under the provisions of section 270 of the Penal Code, which prescribes a penalty for failure to provide for one’s minor child.

Resolving all conflict in' the testimony against the defendant, it appears that he is the father of a child which was born at the St. Elizabeth’s Infant Hospital on October 8, 1922, to a young unmarried mother; that at all times during his acquaintance with the mother of this child the defendant was married to another woman and that there were three children of that marriage; that the defendant was…