State v. Constable

Miller, Judge :

By tbe verdict of the jury, at the June term, 1919, of the circuit Court, the defendant was found guilty as charged in the indictment.

The indictment, substantially in the language of the complaint and warrant prescribed by section 16c (2), chapter 144 Barnes’ Code 1918, our non-support statute, alleges that defendant on the-day of-, 1918, and within one year next preceding and until the finding of the indictment “did without just cause, being then and there a parent, wilfully neglect and refuse to provide for the support and mainten-enee of his legilrmale child Mary Elizabeth…