Guyot v. State

Mississippi Supreme Court

Decided May 24, 1965

Mississippi Supreme Court · decided 1965-05-24

Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently January 1987

2 state decisions

Key passage — most relied on by later courts

“(1) Any parent, guardian or other person who wilfully commits any act or omits the performance of any duty, which act or omission contributes to or tends to contribute to the neglect or delinquency of any child ... shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be punished by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000.00), or by imprisonment not to exceed one (1) year in jail, or by both such fine and imprisonment.”

quoted by 1 later decision, including 660 F. Supp. 474 - Lee v. Gill

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Decided 1965-05-24

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Ethridge, P. J.

¶1Lawrence T. Guyot, Jr. was convicted in the County Court of Forrest County of contributing to the delinquency of a minor, a thirteen year old girl named Barbara Ann Thomas. Miss. Code Ann. §§ 7185-13, 7185-02 (g) (1952). He was fined $500 and sentenced to six months in jail, with five months suspended. The circuit court affirmed.

¶2 The statute applies to any person who “wilfully” commits any act which contributes to, or tends to contribute to the delinquency of a child, or who “knowingly” aids any child in being a delinquent as therein defined. A careful study of this record reflects that there is no evidence upon which to sustain the conviction of appellant. Accordingly, the judgment is reversed, and the appellant is discharged.

¶3Reversed and appellant discharged.

Gillespie, Jones, Brady and Smith, JJ., concur.