Sackheim v. State

MORROW, Presiding Judge.

The offense is child desertion; punishment fixed at confinement in the county jail for a period of ninety days.

Two of appellant’s children, ages ten and twelve years, were, during the year 1918, placed in a charitable institution known as the Faith Home. The wife of the appellant at the time was sick, and an organization known as the Jewish Charities requested that the children be placed in the institution named during her illness and confinement in a sanitarium.

The indictment was returned in December, 1921, and the conviction rests upon the averment and proof that the…