Brooklyn Law School - Chancellor Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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Class of February, 949 sprciiu TERM-PART II Defefzdmzf Will Rire. QHe risesj OES the defendant wish to make any statement before he hears the deter- mination of the Court? Your Honor, if it please the Court, I admit that there is much truth to the allegation that I have rarely returned home to my wife before midnight, and when I did arrive I locked myself in the basement until the most unseernly hour. I further admit that on Saturdays upon leaving the office at noon, I hasten to haunts unknown to my wife, and returned home only when dinner was cold and I was too tired to engage in those Saturday night activities customary among married couples. It is doubtless true that my violent uproars directed at fellow pedestrians on our Sunday afternoon walks, threatening as they did, dire legal recriminations, couched, however, in such abstruse phraseology that I was frequently taken for one suffering from dementia praecox and that this conduct in fact caused my wife great mental anguish. It cannot be denied that the few occasions on which the opportunity pre- sented itself to converse with my wife were so bereft of the normal pleasan- tries of marital chit-chat, and in fact so beyond the pale of her interest and her comprehension, that at first blush her charge of incompatibility would seem well taken. The point as to non-support too, does not seem unreasonable since, despite numerous favorable opportunities in the business world, I have persisted in maintaining a penurious clerkship and have depended on a trifling monthly pittance from a debt-ridden but benevolent Uncle. All things taken together the plaintiff appears to have made out a seem- ingly reasonable case for she has forcefully indicated that there is more than a mere suspicion of truth to the allegations that: lj my conduct has not made for compatibility in marriage. 25 that my tenuous conversational myopia is capable of engendering mental cruelty. BQ that my pitiful pursuit of pecuniary gain, ill compares with the uni- versally present opulence, and may well be termed non-support. All of this I admit, but one fact I plead in extenuation. I am a student of the junior class of Brooklyn Law School, deserving, if you will, of pity, but not chastisement nor ostracism from the fugitive joys of marital bliss. I ask only the patience and forbearance normally evidenced toward the child, the neophyte, the student. Culpablethough I am, your Honor, I pray this Court for a stay of the noble, the mighty, the merciful hand of justice, for a period of one year. H Q GACZ4'LCQ!!O4' PugeForlylwo