State v. Bradnack
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Prosecution of the defendant for unlawfully refusing and neglecting to support his wife, brought to the City Court of New Haven and thence by the defendant’s appeal to the criminal side of the Court of Common Pleas in New Haven County, and tried to the jury before Hotchkiss, J.; verdict and judgment of guilty, and appeal by the accused for alleged errors in the rulings and charge of the court. The case is sufficiently stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtFenn, J.
The appellant was tried in the Court of Common Pleas for the transaction of criminal business in New Haven county, charged with the crime of refusing and neglecting to support his wife. He was convicted, and appealed to this court.
It appears from the finding that upon the trial the State offered evidence to prove the neglect and refusal of the appellant to support his wife; that the appellant offered no evidence to contradict this, but relied for his defense upon the claim, as an excuse, that his wife bad been guilty of adultery with one Daniel Donegan of New Haven. Under such claim the…
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