STATE v. JONES

No. 40423.

56 So.2d 724 (1951)

220 La. 381

STATE v. JONES.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

December 10, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. B. Nachman, Alexandria, for defendant-appellant.

Bolivar E. Kemp, Jr., Atty. Gen., M. E. Culligan, Ass't. Atty. Gen., Ben F. Thompson, Jr., Dist. Atty., George Foote, Ass't. Dist. Atty., Alexandria, for appellee.


FOURNET, Chief Justice.

The defendant, Sam Jones, having been sentenced to serve twelve months in the parish jail subject to work, after trial and conviction of the offense of criminal neglect of family—in that he intentionally deserted and failed to provide for the support of Sam Dixon, Jr., an illegitimate minor child in destitute and necessitous circumstances—prosecutes this appeal.

The minor, Sam Dixon, Jr., was born to the prosecuting witness...

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