Stewart v. Stewart

Walker, Chancellor.

This is a suit for divorce for adultery, the proof of which resides in the plea of guilty to a charge of that offence made in the Passaic county quarter sessions. The defendant, on being arrested. made application to be tried before the court of special sessions, waiving indictment and trial by jury. The prosecutor preferred an allegation of the state against the defendant charging her with adultery, to which., on being arraigned, she pleaded guilty and was sentenced to a term in the women’s reformatory. These facts were properly proved by the production of the record, and…