Kelley v. State

This appeal is from a conviction of desertion of, and willful failure to support, seven minor children under the age of sixteen years under Section 2087, Code of 1942.

Briefly summarized, the facts shown in the record are that Kelley, the appellant, and his first wife and their children resided in Hinds County prior to October, 1947. In that month his wife left Hinds County and took the children with her to Neshoba County, where she and they remained thereafter. They lived in Neshoba County in very poor circumstances and with only bare necessaries *462of life, contributed to them largely by tbe…