Commonwealth v. Carson

Opinion by

Gawthrop, J.,

This is an appeal from an order of the court of quarter sessions requiring a husband to pay his wife $12.50 per week for her support and maintenance from November 1,1922, and to give security for compliance with the order and to stand committed until the order is complied with. The proceeding was under the Act of April 13, 1867, P. L. 78. The complaint charged that the husband unlawfully and wilfully and without reasonable cause separated himself from his wife and that, since September 26,1922, he neglected and refused to support her. At the hearing in the court below,…