COMMONWEALTH v. SHAFFER


175 Pa.Super. 100 (1954)

Commonwealth, Appellant, v. Shaffer.

Superior Court of Pennsylvania.

March 16, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert H. Maurer, Assistant Deputy Attorney General, with him M. Jack Morgan, District Attorney and Frank F. Truscott, Attorney General, for appellant.

Isadore Rapoport, with him Groman & Rapoport, for appellee.

Richard W. Ervin, Attorney General and J. Ernest Webb, Assistant Attorney General, for State of Florida, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

Before RHODES, P.J., HIRT, RENO, ROSS and WRIGHT, JJ.


OPINION BY HIRT, J., March 16, 1954:

This proceeding originated in the petition of Frances J. Shaffer, wife of respondent, addressed to the Circuit Court of the Fifteenth Judicial District of the State of Florida. In her petition under the Uniform Support of Dependents Law of that State, Chapter 27996, 1953, she sought to compel her husband to support her. She alleged that he had abandoned her in Florida and was then domiciled in Lehigh County,

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