Martin v. Martin

Among the causes of divorce enumerated in the statute is "conviction of crime and actual imprisonment in the state prison.” The question in this case is whether the penitentiary in Massachusetts called there "the state prison,” is "the state prison” within the meaning of the term as used in our statute.

"The state prison” is the proper name by which the general penitentiary of this State, established and maintained at Concord, is known in all our legislation. It is so named in the act of 1812, which first provided for the government and regulation of the prison; and in chapter 227 of the…