People v. Meyer
New York Court of General Session of the Peace
'Appeal from an order, declaring the defendant a disorderly person in failing to support Ms wife and cMld.
1Opinion of the Court
GOFF, R.
The police justice has jurisdiction to entertain the complaint of the complainant, and to judicially pass upon and determine the question whether the appellant was a disorderly person for failure or neglect to support his wife and child (section 900 of the Criminal Code, and sections 1454 and 1455 of the Consolidation Act). I find mo provision of law requiring the complaint to be made by the commissioners of charities and correction. Any person may make the complaint. The appel *530I'ant and his wife, while -residents of the city of Brooklyn, entered into an agreement—through an…
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