State v. Peabody

The defendant, convicted of nonsupport under a complaint in which he was described as of Warwick, .in the county of Kent, and by which he was charged with neglecting to provide for his three minor children, according to his means, at Westerly, in the county of Washington, from the first day of December, A. D. 1900, continuously up to the ninth day of August, A. D. 1901, has brought his petition for a new trial, upon the ground that the verdict was against the evidence; that the justice presiding at the trial erred in his rulings and charge, and conducted himself during the trial in a manner…