Thornberry v. State

CHRISTIAN, Judge. —

The offense is bigamy; the punishrment,. confinement in the penitentiary for two years.

The testimony on the part of the State was, in substance, as follows: Appellant married Miss Bettie Glenn in Eastland County on the 13th of October, 1931. On the 4th day of February, 1935, he married Miss Opal Hemby in the State of Oklahoma. Thereafter appellant and Miss Hemby came to Delta County, where they lived together as man and wife.

We find in the record no testimony sufficient to show that appellant’s first wife was alive at the time the second marriage was consummated. In his…