Commonwealth v. Allen

MacDade, J.,

“If any husband or father, being within the limits of this Commonwealth, shall hereafter separate himself from his wife or from his children, or from wife and children, without reasonable cause, and shall wilfully neglect to maintain his wife or children, such wife or children being destitute, or being dependent wholly or in part on their earnihgs for adequate support, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor; and on conviction thereof he sentenced to imprisonment not exceeding one year, and to *732pay a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, or either, or both, at the discretion of the…