Thompson v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Feom the Circuit Court of Marion. Tried before the Hon. Thos. A. Walker. INDICTMENT for polygamy, charging “ that Allen Thompson, before the 'finding of this indictment, having a wife then, living, unlawfully married one Roxanna Wilkerson, against the peace and dignity of the State of Alabama.” The defendant excepted to the charge of the court, under which ho was convicted, and which is the only matter now assigned for error.
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Feom the Circuit Court of Marion. Tried before the Hon. Thos. A. Walker. INDICTMENT for polygamy, charging “ that Allen Thompson, before the 'finding of this indictment, having a wife then, living, unlawfully married one Roxanna Wilkerson, against the peace and dignity of the State of Alabama.” The defendant excepted to the charge of the court, under which ho was convicted, and which is the only matter now assigned for error. All the material facts of the case are stated in the opinion of the court. submitted the case without brief or argument. contended that the decree of divorce, on which…
1Opinion of the CourtWalker, J.
The-appellant was convicted of polygamy, and sentenced to the penitentiary for two years. The material facts in the case, as set forth in the bill of exceptions, are to the following effect: The appellant was married, in the State of Alabama, in 1838, and in 1848 or 1849 left his wife and two youngest children in an adjoining county in Mississippi, and left; but returned to Mississippi, and sold out a portion of his property, left some, and canned the remainder with him into Arkansas, where he settled and cultivated a farm. It'is inferrible from the bill of exceptions, that his emigration to…
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