Long v. State

Pearson, J.,

delivering the opinion of the court:

The defendant Long was married to his first wife in Wilmington, and resided there with her for thirty years prior to their separation in October 1945. On September 21,1946, he went to Arkansas. He had been pensioned from the police force, and had been in bad health for a number of years. He testified that he went to Arkansas on.account of his health because he “thought it would be a better climate” ; also that he went there to obtain a divorce; and that he intended “to leave Delaware permanently and take up a permanent domicile in Arkansas”. His…