Lesueur v. State
Indiana Supreme Court
Prom Pike Circuit Court; John L. Bretz, Judge. Prosecution by The State of Indiana against James E. Desueur. Prom a judgment of conviction, defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtMyers, J.
Appellant was indicted in Vanderburgh county, from which a change of venue was taken to Pike county, where he was convicted and sentenced for bigamy.
1. The first alleged error assigned is in sustaining a demurrer to his plea in abatement. The substance of that plea was that defendant is now, and has been continuously for the past five years, a resident of the State of Missouri, and never was a resident of the State of Indiana; that after his marriage to the prosecuting witness she filed an affidavit in the city court of Evansville, Vanderburgh county, Indiana, charging him with bigamy,…
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