Williams v. State

MORROW, Presiding Judge.

The conviction is for desertion, including the refusal to provide for the support and maintenance of his child. Punishment is fixed at a fine of $400 and confinement in the county jail for six months.

The sufficiency of the evidence is assailed. The prosecution was established August 30, 1920, and tried in December, 1920. Appellant married in September, 1918. He abandoned his wife in November, 1919. She, at the time, was living with appellant’s father, who was in very poor circumstances. She remained there a week and then went to the home of her own father, who was old…