People v. Albright
Michigan Supreme Court
Exceptions before judgment from Ottawa; Padgham, J. Ferdinand Albright was convicted of deserting and abandoning his wife.
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Exceptions before judgment from Ottawa; Padgham, J. Ferdinand Albright was convicted of deserting and abandoning his wife. The respondent was placed upon trial in the November term, 1909, of the circuit court, under an information which charged that he had on, to wit, May 30, 1909, at the city of Grand Haven,- deserted and abandoned his wife, one Gertrude Albright, and without providing necessary and proper shelter, food, care, and clothing for the said wife, and that he had continued in such desertion and abandonment from said May 30, 1909, until the present time, contrary to the form of the…
1Opinion of the CourtStone, J.
(after stating the fads). In our opinion the conviction of the respondent should be set aside, and the respondent discharged. Act No. 144, Pub. Acts 1907, is entitled—
“An act to prevent the desertion and abandonment of wife or children by persons charged by law with the maintenance thereof; to make such abandonment and desertion a felony,” etc.
The elements of the offense defined by section 1 of the act are desertion and abandonment without providing necessary and proper shelter, food, etc. It is unlike the *404Wisconsin statute, referred to in 1 McClain on Crimina! Law, § 58, cited by the…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- State v. WithamWisconsin Supreme Court · 1888
3Cited by3 opinions
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- People v. SteeleMichigan Supreme Court · 1922
- People v. SchelskeMichigan Supreme Court · 1915