Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-04-27
Charges Against Judge
Not Sustained Says Jury

CURED domOcile and residence IN our
Gtate bv either continual or intermlt-
tent habitation with rOoming house
keepers. We, therefore cannot find
that the letter of the law has been
violated.
We were informed that the laws of
the State of Virginia are open to the
world and are not intended for ma
tive born Virginians exclusively, pro-
vided the statutes of the State were
complied with. As the lack Of morals
and the lack of integrity seems to be
the tendency of a part of the present
generation and as immigrants may
still come % us, we recommend that
the present law of domicile and resi-
dence be changed to read so that act
ual physical and continuous residence
be required for 365 days or nights be-
fore any one can acquire domocile
and residence, and that the period re-
ouiped before any divorce suit can be
matured after filing in court must be
at least one year. Until these chang
es can be written upon our statute
books, we recommend that the Court
issue a rule putting them into effect
and that the Court appoint an ami
Gus curea, or attorney for the Court
to see that the attorneys and witness
es for all litigationS in all divoce
suits live up to the letter and spirit
Of this Interpretation of the law, and
that the office of amicus curea be rO-
tated among the members Of the Bar,
the fees to be assessed as part of the
costs against the parties to the suit.
J. NJ. Duncan, Foreman.
Frank T. King
William Desmond
George X. Brawner
Ben Abramson
Elliott f. Hoffman
W. c. Drury.
K. W. OGDEN'S REPORT
Alexandria. Va, April 26.1922.-
To The Honorable Corporation
Court.
Alexandria. Va.
As an individual member of the
Grand Jury beg to submit herewith
a supplemental report to the general
report submitted by seven of the nine
jurors to the following effect:
II has been found rather difficult
on the part of the undersigned jurors
To detremine exactly what constitutes
the evil alleged to have been attribut-
ed to the divorce conditions and am
unwilling to subscribe to the state
mentS contained in the last paragraph
of the said general report and to
those purpOrted to have been made by
various persons within the past sew
eral months that the evil consists in
the quantity of cases. nor i'm the meth
DDS by which the said divorces were
obtained but in my opinion, the abnor-
NAL increase is i'll advised and hur-
ried marriages which finally result in
the application for relief, constitutes
the real evil.
The moral phase of this question is
obviously beyond the control of courts
and juries, but regulatory methods
can be adopted, whereby imposition on
part of unprincipled litigantS cannot
be practiced.
/ therefore recommend that the re
Gently amended law ON the subject be
so construed that not only shall "act-
ual" residence and domicile be re-
Quired, but physical and "continu-
Gus" as well, in so far as the litigants
business will permit and that the
court appoint am amicus curea for
the purpose of determining that this
essential feature shall not have been
violated and to do any and all other
things as may appear necessary in the
premises.
I do however subscribe to all the
contained in the general /
report with the exception Of the last
as aforesaid.
Kenneth w. Ogden.
REPORT OF s. W. PITTS
To The Honorable Corporation
Court,
Alexandria. Va.
As an individual member of the
Grand Jury appointed TO investigate
the divorce conditions in Alexandria |.
I cannot concur in the report and find I.
ings of a majority Of the Grand Jury.
and wish TO submit in my own behalf /.
a minority report. I do this without .
casting any reflection upon any of .
the other gentlemen of the Grand T.
Jury, all Of whom are my friends and .
gentlemen for whom I have the high /
est regard and l do not question their !
honesty Of purpose and accord to .
them the same privilege I reserve for |
myself Of deciding the issues iuvolv- /