Lawler v. Dunlap

In 1917, appellee Mrs. Dunlap married Bill Lawler and they had three children, a girl, Vanita, now ten years of age, one boy nine, and one boy seven. She and Bill Lawler lived together until December, 1926. Mrs. Lawler abandoned her husband at said time by reason, as she stated, of his extreme cruelty, dissipation, and immoral life. In December, 1927, Bill Lawler killed appellee’s father, for which Lawler was convicted in May, 1927, and sentenced to the penitentiary for forty-five years. After the killing appellee Mrs. Dunlap instituted a suit for divorce. She was granted a divorce in May,…