State v. Irwin

The accused and Helen D. Irwin were married in Windham, Connecticut, on August 23, 1935, and later took up their residence in Groton, where the accused was employed by the Electric Boat Company prior to July, 1944, as a chief guard, receiving compensation averaging about $70 per week. They have one child, a daughter, now eight years old. The information charges that the accused on the 20th day of June, 1944, and for a long time subsequent thereto did “neglect, refuse and fail to support his wife and one minor child in violation of §1702c of the 1935 Cumulative Supplement to the General…