State v. Gipson

Respondent was convicted upon the following information:

“That the said Forest D. Gipson, in the county of Franklin, state of Washington, on the first day of April, 1915, did *647then and there unlawfully and feloniously, being the father of three children, to-wit: a girl ten years old named Opal, a girl nine years old named Jennie, and a girl four and a half years old named Angeline, dependent upon him for care, education and support, desert his said children, with the intention of abandoning them, and did wilfully omit, without lawful excuse, to furnish his said children with necessary food,…