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STATE v. JAMES

[No. 7, October Term, 1953.]

203 Md. 113 (1953)

100 A.2d 12

STATE v. JAMES

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided November 5, 1953.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ambrose T. Hartman, Assistant Attorney General, with whom were Edward D.E. Rollins, Attorney General, and John L. Sanford, Jr., State's Attorney for Worcester County, on the brief, for the appellant.

Submitted on brief by William H. Price and Staton, Whaley & Price for the appellee.

The cause was argued before SOBELOFF, C.J., and DELAPLAINE, COLLINS, HENDERSON and HAMMOND, JJ.

HAMMOND, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

The question to be decided in this case is whether Maryland can try criminally a father living in the State on the charge of wilful failure to support his children who live in another State.

The appellee and his family formerly resided in Delaware. In 1950 he was there indicted for desertion and non-support of his two minor children, and on a plea of guilty, was ordered to pay a lump sum for past non-support...

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