Sealock v. Sealock

By Judge Robert K. Woltz

The defendant in this divorce suit was sentenced to the penitentiary for statutory rape in the early 1950’s. In 1963 while he was a parolee, apparently for the second time, from this sentence, he and the complainant were married. In 1967 he was reincarcerated for parole violation. More than two years after this reincarceration and while it continued to exist, the complainant instituted this suit praying for divorce on the ground stated in § 20-91(9), Code 1950 as amended, which in pertinent part provides, “A divorce from the bond of matrimony may be decreed: (9) On the…