State v. Fuchs

The defendant was prosecuted on a criminal information for abandoning his wife without good cause, and failing, neglecting, and refusing to maintain her and provide for her, under section 1273, Revised Statutes. He was convicted, and sentenced to undergo ten days’ imprisonment in jail, and to pay a fine of $500. The defendant and the prosecutrix had been married about three years, at the time of the prosecution, and he abandoned her, or they separated, about two weeks before she instituted the-prosecution, and about nine weeks before the trial.

Her .testimony tended to show that they had lived…