Ewell v. State

The appellant was convicted of wilfully neglecting to provide for the support and maintenance of his wife by the Criminal Court of Baltimore, sitting without a jury, and sentenced to imprisonment for eighteen months. Sentence was suspended and the appellant released on probation on condition that he pay $25.00 a week for the support of his wife. He says the judgment should be reversed because (1) his wife has $10,000 in cash, most of which she accumulated during their married life, while he is unemployed and without funds; (2) six months before the prosecution, they had entered into a…