Commonwealth Ex Rel. Wenz v. Wenz

Opinion by

Watkins, J.,

This is an appeal from an order of the Court of Quarter -Sessions of Lehigh County directing the defendant, Earl Wenz, to pay $25 per week for the support of his wife, the prosecutrix, Juanita M. Wenz, pursuant to a prosecution brought under §733 of the Act of June 24, 1939, P. L. 872, 18 PS §4733.

The defendant, Earl Wenz and Florentia Wenz, were married on June 30, 1921. He unsuccessfully brought a divorce action against her in Lehigh County in 1933. He obtained a divorce from her in Butler County, Ohio, on January 12, 1942. On November 7, 1942 he married the…