Bradfield v. State
New York Court of General Session of the Peace
Appeal from Municipal Court of City of Wilmington. Information (No. 120, September Term, 1914) on appeal against William M. Bradfield for willfully neglecting to support his illegitimate child. The accused elected to be tried by a jury.
1Opinion of the Court
Boyce, J.,
charging the jury.
Gentlemen of the jury:—By the information filed here, on appeal from the Municipal Court of this city, it is charged that William M. Bradfield did unlawfully and without just cause willfully neglect to provide for the support and maintenance of William M. Bradfield, Jr., his illegitimate child, being under the age of sixteen years and in necessitous circumstances.
The case is to be tried here the same as though the charge had been made in this court by indictment, in the first instance.
Section 1, Chapter 262, Volume 27, Laws of this state, provides, among other…
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