Legal Opinion

Wink v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided January 23, 1963No. 35243Published

1Opinion of the Court

DICE, Commissioner.

*698The offense is bigamy, as denounced by Art. 490a, Vernon's Ann.P.C., where the : bigamous marriage occurs without the state and the parties later cohabit within this state; the punishment, two years.

The sufficiency of the evidence to support the conviction is challenged.

The state offered proof that the appellant and Mary Ann Williams were duly and legally married on September 28, 1961, in Taylor County, Texas, and that they thereafter lived together as husband and wife for four or five months, after which they separated.

To establish the subsequent bigamous marriage, the…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Johnson v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1912

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