People ex rel. Fleischman v. Fox

The relator is brought before the court upon a writ of habeas corpus. The defendant makes return that he is held *83by virtue of a commitment by a city magistrate, a copy of which is attached to the return. The return recites that the relator was charged before the city magistrate with being a disorderly person, viz., a person who had threatened to abandon and has abandoned his wife and children without adequate support and in danger of becoming a burden upon the public, and had neglected to provide, according to his means, for his family; that upon examination of said matter in the presence of…