Commonwealth v. Marino

On appeal to the Superior Court, the defendant was convicted on a complaint charging him with unreasonably neglecting and refusing (being of sufficient *726ability) to provide for the support and maintenance of his wife and two minor children during the three months ’ period next preceding June 22, 1960. Gr. L. c. 273, § 1. The case comes here on the defendant’s exceptions to the denial of his motion for a directed verdict, to the refusal to grant certain requests, and to portions of the charge.

The defendant’s wife testified as follows: She and the defendant were married in Lynn on June 10, 1957.…