Gise v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Quarter Sessions of Luzerne county: Of January Term 1876, No. 250. At the September Term 1875 of the Court of Quarter Sessions of Luzerne county, an indictment was found on the 10th of September, the first count of which charged: that David Gise “did unlawfully and wilfully have two wives at one and the same time.”
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Error to the Court of Quarter Sessions of Luzerne county: Of January Term 1876, No. 250. At the September Term 1875 of the Court of Quarter Sessions of Luzerne county, an indictment was found on the 10th of September, the first count of which charged: that David Gise “did unlawfully and wilfully have two wives at one and the same time.” The second count charged that Gise, “ on the first day of January, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, did marry one Harriet Fisher, and he the said Harriet then and there had for a wife, and the said David Gise afterwards, and while he was so…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Paxson
This case presents a single question.
The plaintiff in error was indicted for the crime of bigamy. Upon the trial in the court below, the Statute of Limitations was set up as a defence. It appeared that the second marriage took place more than two years prior to the prosecution. The court ruled that bigamy was a continuing offence, and that the statute did not apply. The defendant was convicted and sentenced; and the record having been brought into this court upon a writ of error, we are required to decide upon the correctness of this ruling.
Our Statute of Limitations contains no clause…
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