Young v. Young
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Bell. Tried below before the lion. L. G. Alexander. On September 10,1877, Alice Young instituted suit in the district court of Bell county against W. P. Young to procure a divorce and for the recovery of certain real and personal property.
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Appeal from Bell. Tried below before the lion. L. G. Alexander. On September 10,1877, Alice Young instituted suit in the district court of Bell county against W. P. Young to procure a divorce and for the recovery of certain real and personal property. On April 10, 1880, plaintiff filed her first amended original petition, and in addition to her original cause of action pleaded as cause for divorce that on October 24, 1877, defendant was convicted of the crime of incest with her daughter (she, the plaintiff, not appearing as a witness against him), and the punishme'nt was assessed at two…
1Opinion of the Court
Walker, P. J. Com. App.—
The decisive question in this case is whether the legal consequence of a commutation of the punishment by the governor of the state is equivalent to a pardon of the offender for the crime of which he has been convicted, so far as the one or the other relates to the subject Of divorce under our laws. The statute regulating divorces, which was in force when the defendant was convicted of incest, and has continued still to be so, among other grounds authorizing the granting of divorces embraced the following, viz.: “ In favor of either the husband or wife, ay hen the…
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