State v. Gipson

Citations

• 92 Wash. 646
• 159 P. 792
• 1916 Wash. LEXIS 810

Syllabus

<p>Indictment and Information — Duplicity—Family Desertion. An information charging family desertion by the abandonment of children and failure to provide support is not duplicitous, under Rem. 1915 Code, § 5933-1, which defines the offense disjunctively by enumerating in separate subdivisions the acts constituting the offense as if “or” occurred between the subdivisions; since several alternative means by which the same offense may be committed may all be included in one charge, and since there is no inherent difference between physical abandonment and actual failure to support.</p>