SMITH v. STATE

3 Div. 912.

45 So.2d 172 (1950)

SMITH v. STATE.

Court of Appeals of Alabama.

March 21, 1950.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hugh Rozelle, of Atmore, for appellant.

A. A. Carmichael, Atty. Gen., and Wm. N. McQueen, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.


BRICKEN, Presiding Judge.

From a judgment of conviction for vagrancy this appeal was taken. The prosecution was based upon Title 14, Section 437, Subdivision (8), of the Code 1940, which reads as follows: "Any able-bodied person who shall abandon his wife and children, or either of them, without just cause, leaving her or them without sufficient means of subsistence, or in danger of becoming a public charge."

The prosecution was begun in the county court upon...

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