POKE v. STATE

78-143.

369 So.2d 840 (1979)

In re Walter POKE, Sr. v. STATE of Alabama. Ex parte State of Alabama ex rel. Attorney General.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

March 9, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William J. Baxley, Atty. Gen., and Willis E. Isaac, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.

No briefs for respondent—submitted on brief of petitioner.


MADDOX, Justice.

The defendant was convicted of willful refusal to support his minor children. The Court of Criminal Appeals reversed his conviction and determined that, even though the State showed that the father had failed for seven years to give any support to his children, and that the mother of the children was out of work, and that the children were getting food stamps, "nevertheless, the state failed to negate other possible sources of economic support...

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