People v. Dimitry

The defendant is charged with being a disorderly person under subdivision 1 of section 899 of the Code of Criminal Procedure in that he has left his wife in danger of becoming a burden upon the public and that he has neglected to provide for her according to his means. The defendant’s wife is the complainant.

The defendant, twenty-two, is a resident of the city of Utica. His wife, twenty, was a resident of the city of Rochester both when she became engaged to him in January, 1936, and when married to him the following August. Upon her marriage she went to live with the defendant in the city of…