Commonwealth v. Medlinsky

Opinion by

Boss, J.,

The Commonwealth has taken this appeal from the discharge of a husband who had been arrested on a charge of failing to support his wife.

On December 2,1948, the prosecutrix, Josephine Medlinsky, at that time residing in Luzerne County, caused a warrant to be issued charging her husband, a resident of Schuylkill County, with failing to support her. When the case was called for hearing, the defendant moved the court for his discharge on the ground that the matter had been adjudicated by the Court of Quarter Sessions of Schuylkill County. The defendant’s motion was granted, the…