Commonwealth v. MacMaster

Opinion by

Portee., P. J.,

The appellant was tried in the court below upon an information charging desertion and failure to support his wife, and, on January 7,1926, was ordered to pay to his wife the sum of $40 per month, from June 15, 1925, for her support, and to give security for the performance of the order. The record discloses that the husband was charged with desertion upon the oath of his wife, a hearing was duly had, which resulted in a conviction and appropriate sentence. This being a certiorari to a proceeding before a judge of the court below, out of the course of the common law,…