State v. Fried

An information was filed by the district attorney in this case on May 12,1922, charging that the relator, “on the 15th day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twenty-,” “willfully and unlawfully did desert, fail, refuse, and neglect without just cause to support and provide for his wife, Mrs. Henry Fried, she being in necessitous circumstances.”

Defendant was duly arraigned, pleaded not guilty, and his case was regularly set for trial. He was found guilty by respondent judge, and was ordered by the court to pay to the clerk of the court for the support of his wife…