Sumter v. Sumter

Sanders, Chief Judge:

This is an appeal by Leroy Sumter, the husband, from an order of the Family Court requiring him to pay $200 monthly alimony and $350 attorney’s fees to his wife, Jean Sumter. We affirm.

The husband and wife lived with each other for approximately 17 months before finally separating. Their lives together were not happy. The husband admitted to physically abusing the wife on several occasions, although he claimed to have done so only after she first struck him. The husband also admitted to having shot and wounded the wife. As a result of the shooting incident he was…