Freeman v. State

MORROW, Presiding Judge.

Child desertion and non-support is the offense; punishment fixed at confinement in the county jail for a period of sixty days.

Appellant was charged in two counts in violation of Art. 602 of the Penal Code of 1925, the information using these words :

“* * * did then and there willfully and without justification desert, neglect, fail and refuse to provide for the support and maintenance of his said child being then and there in destitute and necessitous circumstances.”

The date of the offense was laid on the 26th day of February. Appellant presented a plea of former…