State ex rel. Richeson v. Richeson

This was an action to recover the penalty provided for a fraudulent marriage under the act of 1895 (Acts 1895, p. 167, §1, §7298a Burns 1901). This section reads as follows: “That any male person, who being at the time under or liable to a prosecution, either civil or criminal, for seduction or bastardy, fraudulently enters *375into a marriage ■with the female who has been seduced or who is the mother of the bastard child, with the intention thereby to escape or avoid such prosecution or the consequences thereof, and who within two years after such marriage, without just cause, shall abandon his…