Show 1 i i V FOR WIFE DESERTION i Philip Geiger First to Be B Prosecuted I Under New Law Philip Geiger is s Just now the center of at ofa ata a hot legal battle in the district court He tie is the first fiest man to be prosecuted d un uni under der dec the new tl W statute enacted by b the t e last legislature making it possible to punish a aman aman aman man for deserting and failing falling to support his hl hi dependent family Yesterday Y after the prosecution pros hid pre presented pr presented Us Its testimony lit Attorney J t II If DeVine who represents Geiger asked the th judge for peremptory Instructions to the jury dismissing the iii ease case on the grounds that as Geiger vas in alfOrnia lalif t at 11 the i I tittle the th offense was alleged to have h ve been committed and anti his lila children were ivere ere here ere in Ogden that he h could not be prosecuted roS under uDder a statute of or this State St ti This demand was taken under ment bj by b Judge Jud e Howell and adjournment was ris taken tak n Until this morning when his h s decision will be glen given |