§ 8-10-4 - Criminal cases referred to family court. - Rhode Island Statutes

SECTION 8-10-4

   § 8-10-4  Criminal cases referred to familycourt. – To the family court shall also be referred for hearing, adjustment,reconciliation, decision, and sentence all causes properly brought in the courtor appealed from other courts in which the defendant is accused, as provided bythe statutes, of abandonment of his wife or her husband or children, or both,leaving them in danger of becoming public charges; of neglect to provideaccording to their means for his wife or her husband or children, or both; ofneglect or refusal of an habitual drunkard to aid in the support of his or herfamily; of neglect or refusal by a child over eighteen (18) years of age toprovide for the support and maintenance of his or her father or mother; or ofthreat to commit a crime or offense against the person or property of thedefendant's husband, wife, children, father, or mother.