Bowman v. Bowman

Jordan, Justice.

Roger Otto Bowman, Sr., appeals a divorce decree dissolving his marriage to Marchita Jenkins Bowman based on a jury verdict which includes an award of $20 per week for child support, plus 50% interest in a farm and $20,000 for alimony. Held:

1. Three enumerations are argued on the basis that throughout the trial and by every possible means the plaintiff undertook to apprise the jury that the trial judge had ordered the defendant to pay the plaintiff $1,700 alimony.

The defendant on cross examination made the statement that he had deducted $1,700 on a tax return as alimony.…