Davis v. State

Plaintiff in error was indicted in the Circuit Court of Taylor County, upon a charge of bigamy. The indictment omitting formal parts is as follows:

“The Grand Jurors of the State of Florida, duly chosen, empanelled and sworn diligently to inquire and true presentment make in and for the body of the County of Taylor upon their oath present that John C. Davis, late of said county, on the 16th day of May, A. D. 1910, in the county and State aforesaid did unlawfully marry and have for his wife one Beulah Chancey. He, the said *461John C. Davis, did then and there have a former wife living, to-wit:…