Bethune v. Bethune

In August, 1930, the appellee, Johnnie Mae Bethune, nee Owen, resided with her father in the town of Wynne, Arkansas. In that month she was married -to the appellant, Roderick A. Bethune, in Marion, Arkansas.

The appellant admits his cohabitation with the appellee as man and wife, but testified that this occurred only on a very few occasions. The appellee, on the other hand, testified, and was corroborated in her statement, that appellant visited her in her home nearly every week-end for several months, and at other times they would spend the week-end in Memphis or some other city. Appellant…