United States v. Tenney

In 1882 the congress of the United States passed an act to amend section 5352 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, in reference to polygamy, and *130for other purposes. This is the "Edmunds Law,” so called. Section 1 provides that "every person who has a husband or wife living, who, in a territory or other place over which the United States have exclusive jurisdiction, hereafter marries another, whether married or single; and any man who hereafter simultaneously, or on the same day, marries more than one woman, in a territory or other place over which the United States have exclusive…