Gladney v. State

Appellant was indicted nnder Sec. 2087, Miss. Code of 1942, for deserting and wilfully neglecting or refusing to provide for the support and maintenance of his child under the age of sixteen years, leaving such child in destitute or necessitous circumstances. On trial in the Circuit Court of Chickasaw County, First District, he was convicted and sentenced to a term of eighteen months in the penitentiary.

On appeal there are only three assignments of error. The first two are that the court erred in refusing a directed verdict for the appellant at the conclusion of the evidence, and also erred…