Waldrop v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
This indictment contained four counts in substance charging that appellant did on the 7th day of July, 1898, finlawfully marry and have for his wife one Ludie Glasson, he, the said R. M. Waldrop, then and •there having a lawful former wife then living, to wit, one Laura Nabors Waldrop.
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This indictment contained four counts in substance charging that appellant did on the 7th day of July, 1898, finlawfully marry and have for his wife one Ludie Glasson, he, the said R. M. Waldrop, then and •there having a lawful former wife then living, to wit, one Laura Nabors Waldrop. The State proved by A. M. Nabors that he was the father of Laura Nabors, and that on the 25th day of February, 1892, in Morgan County, Alabama, where witness then lived, defendant was married to his daughter, Laura Nabors. That the ceremony was performed by one Ryan, a justice of the peace in said State and…
1Opinion of the Court
BROOKS, Judge.
Appellant.was convicted of bigamy, and his punishment assessed at five years confinement in the State penitentiary.
Appellant’s first bill of exceptions complains of the failure of the court to give the following special charge: “In order to warrant a conviction in this case, the evidence must establish in your minds, beyond a reasonable doubt, the existence of the fact of the first valid marriage. A valid marriage is one which has been solemnized according to the mode and manner, and in accordance with the prerequisites, which the law of the place where solemnized has required.”…
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