State v. Watson

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Van Syckel, J.

This certiorari is prosecuted to review an order made by the recorder of Camden under section 5 of the Disorderly act (Rev., p. 305), as amended in Gen. Stat., p. 1204, § 33, requiring the prosecutor to support the infant child of Jennie Cohen.

The fifth section, as amended, provides “that any husband or father who deserts or willfully refuses or neglects to provide for and maintain his wife or other family, shall be *500deemed and adjudged a disorderly person, and whenever any overseer of the poor of the township or city within which any…