McRae v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the circuit court of Clark county. Hon. John L. Buckley/Judge. R. L. McRae was convicted of vagrancy and appeals. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court.
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Appeal from the circuit court of Clark county. Hon. John L. Buckley/Judge. R. L. McRae was convicted of vagrancy and appeals. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court. This appeal presents among other things the following questions: 1. Is the offense defined in this statute, a continuing-offense? 2. If after one completed act of desertion or abandonment, coupled thereafter, with a failure to support does the statute of limitations of two years begin to run? 3. Will an abandonment in one heat of a county, coupled to a failure to support in another beat of the same county, support…
1Opinion of the CourtReed, J.
R. L. McRae was convicted of vagrancy, consisting of his abandonment of his wife and child, without just cause, leaving them without support. The prosecution was under section 5055, Code of 1906, which prescribes who are vagrants, and subdivision “k” of that section, which declares: “Every person who shall abandon his wife or family, without just cause, leaving her or them without support, or in danger of becoming a public charge.” R. L. McRae married Miss Lula Stewart, in Meridian, on February 19, 1909, and on March 30th thereafter a child was born. lie lived with his wife until May 12,…
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