Parker v. State

CHRISTIAN, Judge.

The offense is bigamy; the punishment, confinement in the penitentiary for three years.

Omitting the formal parts, the fifth count of the indictment, under which appellant was convicted, reads as follows: “Dawson P. Parker, on or about the 10th day of January, A. D. 1931. and anterior to the presentment of this indictment, in the county of Gray and state of Texas, did then and there unlawfully marry Evelyn Zimmerman, he, the said Dawson P. Parker, then and there having a former wife, to-wit, Mildred Parker (nee Chism) then living, and he, the said Dawson P. Parker, had…