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- Title: State Tennessee v. William Joseph Sliger
- Author : Supreme Court of Tennessee
- Release Date : January 19, 1993
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 66 KB
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We granted this appeal to determine whether our flagrant nonsupport felony statute applies to a nonresident who has never
resided in Tennessee. The defendant, William J. Sliger, a Texas resident, was indicted by a Wilson County grand jury for the
violation of the flagrant nonsupport statute, which provides that the offense is committed when a person leaves or remains
without the state to avoid a legal duty of support. The trial court held that the State did not have jurisdiction and quashed
the indictment. The Court of Criminal Appeals reversed the trial court, construing the statute as containing no requirement
that a nonsupporting parent first leave the state in order to be "remain without the state." We disagree and conclude that
the statutory language "remains without the state" is not applicable to a nonsupporting parent who has never resided in Tennessee.
We, therefore, affirm the trial court's judgment of dismissal on the separate grounds stated. FACTUAL BACKGROUND
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