Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 271, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 November 1916 — SHOULD HELP HER HUSBAND [ARTICLE]

SHOULD HELP HER HUSBAND

Court Decides Crime Is No Cause for Divorce —Defines Habitual Drunkard. Des Moines, la.—The lowa supreme court, in session here, has handed down several Soloj»o t nlc decisions. In one ruling, the court held that confession of a crime on the part of a husband does not constitute grounds for divorce proceedings. “It ill becomes a wife,” said the court, “to prefer criminal charges against her husband. She took him for better or for worse, and she should try to redeem him.” In the same decision the court defined a habitual drunkard as “one who becomes even moderately intoxicated whenever the opportunity Is presented.”