State v. Goodenow
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On exceptions. Indictment, alleging adultery on'November 21, 1873. The female defendant was legally married to George W. Hussey, April 30, 1861, at Turner, where they subsequently cohabited as husband and wife. They afterwards separated; and October 15,1865, the defendants were united in marriage by one Isaac I. York, a justice of the peace, and they ever after cohabited as husband and wife.
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On exceptions. Indictment, alleging adultery on'November 21, 1873. The female defendant was legally married to George W. Hussey, April 30, 1861, at Turner, where they subsequently cohabited as husband and wife. They afterwards separated; and October 15,1865, the defendants were united in marriage by one Isaac I. York, a justice of the peace, and they ever after cohabited as husband and wife. There was evidence that December 14, 1873, George W. Hussey, was alive at Byron, Michigan, (the evidence being that his mother received a letter of that date purporting to come thence from him by due…
1Opinion of the CourtPeters, J.
The respondents are jointly indicted for adultery, they having cohabited as husband and wife while the female respondent was lawfully married to another man who is still alive. The only question found in the exceptions, is, whether the evidence offered and rejected should have been received. This was, that the lawful husband had married again, and that the justice of the peace who united the respondents in matrimony advised them that, on that account, they had the right to intermarry, and that they believed the statement to be true, and acted upon it in good faith. It is urged for the…
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- Black v. WardMichigan Supreme Court · 1873
- United States v. AnthonyU.S. Circuit Court for the District of Northern New York · 1873
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