DENNIS, Justice.
The question presented in this review of a criminal conviction is whether the criminal neglect of wife statute, La. R.S. 14:74 A(1), which makes it a crime for a husband, but not a wife, with financial means to intentionally fail to support his destitute spouse, violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
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