State v. Weyant

The evidence on the part of the state is undisputed, and tends to show that defendant was married September 9, 1906, and that a child of this union was born to him May 20, 1908. For a time prior to the alleged desertion, the family lived as tenants in a house belonging to defendant’s father, some of whose land defendant cultivated. On March 15, 1909, under the pretense of leaving home for a very short time on a business errand, defendant abandoned his wife and child, and since that date has not lived with them or in any manner contributed to their support and maintenance. On the day of…