Commonwealth v. Clauges

MacDade, J.,

On July 21, 1933, this court sentenced the above-named defendant to pay a fine of $100 and costs of prosecution and to undergo imprisonment in the county jail for a period of 1 year minimum and 2 years maximum because he pleaded guilty to a charge of bigamy.

*644However, the fact of a bigamous marriage being proven, has a court of quarter sessions the authority, in passing the sentence, to declare the said bigamous marriage null and void?

We believe it does, as we have decreed in similar cases heretofore, said authority being derived from legislative sanction, namely, the Act of March…