State v. Robbins

FOURNET, -Chief Justice.

The State of Louisiana is appealing from the judgment of the Juvenile Court, Parish of Jefferson, maintaining a plea to the jurisdiction and dismissing its prosecution of the defendant, Luther B. Robbins, on a bill of information charging Robbins with wilfully neglecting to provide for the support of his two minor sons, aged 12 years and 6 years, they being in necessitous circumstances, contrary to the form of the statute of this State, Criminal Code, Article 74: LSA-R.S. 14:74, defining criminal neglect of family and providing a penalty therefor.

The defendant’s plea…