TURNER v. STATE

No. 37405.

385 S.W.2d 848 (1965)

Katherine Yvonne TURNER, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

January 20, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jack W. Knight, Houston, for appellant.

Frank Briscoe, Dist. Atty., Carl E. F. Dally, Cletus A. Davis and Ruben Hope, Asst. Dist. Attys., Houston, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


WOODLEY, Judge.

The offense is child desertion; the punishment, three months in jail.

The complaint and information filed March 27, 1964, alleged that the appellant was the mother of "Infant son whose name is unknown to affiant," and that on or about the 1st day of March, 1964, she "did then and there unlawfully and wilfully desert her said child, the said Infant son whose name is unknown to affiant."

Trial was before the court on a plea of not guilty...

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