Commonwealth Ex Rel. Allison v. Allison

Opinion by

Kenworthey, J.,

This is a prosecution under Section 733 of the Act of June 24, 1939, P. L. 872, 18 PS 4733, charging that defendant separated himself from his wife without reasonable cause and neglected to support her. The court found him guilty and made an order that he pay $60 a month.

It is conceded that relatrix is not defendant’s wife. Throughout the period of approximately four years during which the parties lived together he was legally married to another woman, and the Mexican divorce which he procured in April 193.7, after they had been living together for some months, and…