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Show Wife, With Black Eyes, Balks at Jail for Mate Detroit A wife has a right to object ob-ject when a husband fails to turn over his entire pay to her, and the husband has no right to use physical violence when the wife falls to prepare his breakfast Judge Christopher E. Stein ruled. This decision was reached when Walter Rokosz, thirty-three, was brought Into Recorder's court on nn assault and battery charge preferred by his wife. Mrs. Agnes Rokosz appeared ap-peared In court with two black eyes which she suld her husband had Inflicted. In-flicted. According to the testimony, the husband hus-band failed to give his wife his entire pay, and an argument followed. The next morning the wife failed to get up to prepare his breakfast and the argument ar-gument broke into a flglita After Judge Stein heard the testimony testi-mony his comments were restricted to the sentence of $30 fine and costs, or sixty days in JalL Rokosz immediately imme-diately was sent to serve the sixty duys "I don't want him to go to Jail,' the wife said. Judge Stein reconsidered, had the prisoner brought back from the bullpen, and changed the sentence to six months' probation. |