Bell v. Bell

Hawkins, Justice.

1. In a divorce case based upon the ground of cruel treatment, the trial judge charged the jury that “it is necessary for you to know what our law defines cruel treatment to be. And, the law says that cruelty in the sense that we use it in obtaining a divorce or as grounds for divorce, is the wilful infliction of cruel acts by one party on another that would cause the apprehensions of danger to life, limb, health, or mind.” While this charge is not in the exact language of Code § 30-102 (10), it embodied substantially the definition of cruel treatment as contained in that…