People v. McGlaughlin
Michigan Supreme Court
Exceptions before judgment from Berrien; Coolidge, J. Daniel J. McGlaughlin was convicted of performing a marriage ceremony without having received from the parties the license required by law.
1Opinion of the CourtMooee, J.
The respondent is a clergyman, who, on the 26th day of February, 1895, performed a marriage ceremony between James F. McNamar and Emma Nagle. At the time of such ceremony, James McNamar had a former wife living, and was afterwards convicted of bigamy in the circuit court of Berrien county, and sentenced to the state prison. At the time of such ceremony, McNamar represented to the respondent that he had applied for and procured a license to marry from the county clerk, and that the same was on its way in the mail. As a matter of fact, he had made no such application, and no license was issued…
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