Apkins v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Winn —

Affirming.

Peter Paul Apkins on May 24,1911, married in Paris; Illinois, Miss Bertha Kohler. A couple of days later he married in Lexington, Kentucky, Miss Elizabeth Young. The Payette grand jury indicted him for bigamy. He was convicted, and appeals here.

He complains that his demurrer to the indictment should have been sustained. The text of the indictment is as follows:

“The grand jury of Payette County, in the name and by the authority of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, accuse Peter P. Apkins of the crime of bigamy, committed as follows, viz.; That, said…