Laws v. People

*563The plaintiff in error was convicted, under Chapter 179, Laws of 1911, of wilfully neglecting to support a minor child.

The wife of plaintiff in error obtained a divorce from him in the District Court of Adams County, in this state, in September, 1909, and was given the custody of the child.

During the pendency of the suit for divorce, on June 16, 1908, the parties came to an agreement as to alimony, and entered into a written contract under which the defendant conveyed to the plaintiff his equity in a tract of 64 acres of land in Adams County. The agreement provided that the conveyance of the…