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WHITTINGTON v. STATE

No. 40148.

228 Miss. 550 (1956)

88 So.2d 115

WHITTINGTON v. STATE

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

June 11, 1956.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Arrington & Arrington, Hazlehurst, for appellant.

J.R. Griffin, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.

ETHRIDGE, J.

(Hn 1) Appellant, Paul (Pete) Whittington, Sr., was convicted in the Circuit Court of Copiah County of deserting and willfully neglecting and refusing to provide for the support and maintenance of his four children under the age of sixteen years, leaving such children in destitute or necessitous circumstances. Code of 1942, Section 2087. Since the charge was in the conjunctive, and not in the alternative, as permitted by the statute, the...

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