PEOPLE v. SORENSEN

Docket No. Crim. 11708.

68 Cal.2d 280 (1968)

437 P.2d 495

66 Cal. Rptr. 7

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. FOLMER J. SORENSEN, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

February 26, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James C. Van Dyke and Van Dyke & Shaw for Defendant and Appellant.

Thomas C. Lynch, Attorney General, Edward P. O'Brien and Gloria F. DeHart, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.


McCOMB, J.

Defendant appeals from a judgment convicting him of violating section 270 of the Penal Code (willful failure to provide for his minor child), a misdemeanor.

The settled statement of facts recites that seven years after defendant's marriage it was medically determined that he was sterile. His wife desired a child, either by artificial insemination or by adoption, and at first defendant refused to consent...

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