PONTIAC, Mich. - A man facing a five-year felony for viewing his wife's e-mail without her permission will go on trial April 11, a judge has ruled.

Leon Walker, 33, of Rochester Hills, Mich., is accused under a state hacking law of reading then-wife Clara Walker's e-mail on a laptop in their home in 2009.

Leon Walker was Clara Walker's third husband and was suspicious that she was having an affair with her second husband, who had been arrested on charges of beating her in front of a child she had with her first husband.

Leon Walker learned of the affair when he read her e-mail, using her password. He provided the e-mails to her first husband. That husband filed for custody of the child he shared with Clara Walker and attached the e-mails to a court filing. Clara Walker filed a complaint with the Oakland County Sheriff's Office, and the Oakland County prosecutor sought a warrant.

The statute is mostly used for cases in which computer hackers steal information and in cases of identity theft.

Leon and Clara Walker, who have a daughter, divorced in 2010.

His trial was adjourned until April to give Leon Walker's lawyer, Leon Weiss, more time to prepare. Weiss and Leon Walker said Monday that they requested all police records from the sheriff's office involving spouses and ex-spouses reporting that their e-mails had been read. They could not find a prosecution.

"What, there aren't enough robberies, murder and rape in Oakland County to keep the prosecutor busy?" Weiss said Monday.

Chief Assistant Prosecutor Paul Walton said Walker's actions merited the felony charge.

"He chose to not only access an e-mail account, but to then publically disseminate that information with the intent to humiliate her," Walton said.