State v. Dvoracek
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Story District Court. — Hon. Robert M. Wright, Judge. The defendant was indicted September 3, 1907, for that he, in Story County, “did unlawfully and feloniously without good cause willfully neglect to maintain and provide for Mary Dvoracek,. Hazel Dvoracek, and Roscoe Dvoracek; the said Mary Dvoracek then and there being the wife of said defendant and in a destitute condition, and the said Hazel Dvoracek and Roscoe Dvoracek then and there being the legitimate…
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Appeal from Story District Court. — Hon. Robert M. Wright, Judge. The defendant was indicted September 3, 1907, for that he, in Story County, “did unlawfully and feloniously without good cause willfully neglect to maintain and provide for Mary Dvoracek,. Hazel Dvoracek, and Roscoe Dvoracek; the said Mary Dvoracek then and there being the wife of said defendant and in a destitute condition, and the said Hazel Dvoracek and Roscoe Dvoracek then and there being the legitimate children of the said defendant, and both and each of said children being then and there under the age of sixteen years and…
1Opinion of the CourtLadd, C. J.
— The offense defined in chapter 170, of the Acts of the Thirty-Second General Assembly, is purely modern and as certain as in the nature of things seems to have been desirable. The first section reads: “Every person who shall, without good cause, willfully neglect or refuse to maintain or provide for his wife, she being in a destitute condition, or who shall without good cause, abandon his or her legitimate or legally adopted child or children under tire age of sixteen years, leaving such child or children in a destitute condition, or shall, without good cause, willfully neglect or refuse to…
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- Jemmerson v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1888
- Bennefield v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1888
- State v. HengenSupreme Court of Iowa · 1898
- State v. StoutSupreme Court of Iowa · 1908
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- State v. Lanesboro Produce & Hatchery Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1946
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