Daughdrill v. Daughdrill

The appellant, Mrs. Sadie B-ainey Daughdrill, filed a bill for divorce against her husband, Leroy Daughdrill, in Forrest county. The bill charged that appellee was “tried in the Federal Court at Mobile, Alabama, in September, 1936, for stealing said automobile, and was convicted and sentenced to the United States Penitentiary at Atlanta, Georgia, for a term of two and one-half (2%) years; that he is now serving said sentence and was not pardoned before being sent there.” The appellee filed no answer to the bill. The court below heard the evidence offered by the appellant, denied the divorce,…