State v. Lewis

This is an appeal from an order sustaining defendant’s demurrer to the sufficiency of the information and a cross-appeal from an order overruling defendant’s plea of former jeopardy. The charging part of the information accuses Merle Frank Lewis of the crime of bigamy committed as follows:

“That the said defendant in the County of Chelan, State of Washington, on the 19th day of November, 1953, did then and there wilfully, unlawfully, and feloniously, having a wife living, to wit, Frances Randall Conrad Lewis, cohabit with a second wife, Maxine Charlton Lewis, having been married to the said…