State v. Davis

FINCH, Judge.

The principal questions presented on this appeal are whether § 559.353, 1 the criminal nonsupport statute, is unconstitutional, and if not, whether a submissible case thereunder was made against the defendant. 2

Defendant was charged by information in the St. Louis Court of Criminal Correction with failing, neglecting and refusing, without good cause, to provide adequate food, clothing, lodging, medical and surgical attention for his four named children, all of whom were under sixteen years of age. He was found guilty by the judge and sentenced to imprisonment for six months in…