Medrano v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Webb. Tried below before Hon. A. L. McLane. On a trial, under an indictment charging him with bigamy, appellant was convicted, and his punishment assessed at two years confinement in the penitentiary.
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Appeal from the District Court of Webb. Tried below before Hon. A. L. McLane. On a trial, under an indictment charging him with bigamy, appellant was convicted, and his punishment assessed at two years confinement in the penitentiary. For the State, it was proved: That defendant was legally married to Margarito Rico, a woman, in 1889, in Webb County, Texas; that they separated in about three months after the marriage; that they have never been divorced, and that said wife is still .living. That about the 9th day of January, 1893, defendant was married, 'in Webb County, Texas, by a duly…
1Opinion of the Court
HURT, Presiding Judge.
Appellant was convicted of bigamy, and his punishment assessed at two years confinement in the penitentiary. He was under arrest for seduction, and being informed by his father and the district attorney that if he should marry the girl alleged to have been seduced, the prosecution would be dismissed, he married her, and having a living wife at the time, bigamy was alleged upon this second marriage. To this charge he interposed two defenses: First, that he was in duress when he married the second time. He was not, because our statute expressly provides, that he may, under…
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