Crawford v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the circuit court of Attala county. Hon. C. H. Campbell, Judge. The opinion states all the facts relating to the controlling question involved in the decision. On .the facts shown by the record the appellant should have been acquitted, and doubtless would have been, but for the erroneous instruction for the state, in which his union with Florence King was recognized as a valid marriage.
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From the circuit court of Attala county. Hon. C. H. Campbell, Judge. The opinion states all the facts relating to the controlling question involved in the decision. On .the facts shown by the record the appellant should have been acquitted, and doubtless would have been, but for the erroneous instruction for the state, in which his union with Florence King was recognized as a valid marriage. That marriage occurred in February, 1893, while appellant’s first wife, Susan Crawford, was still alive, and before he had obtained any divorce from her. It was therefore void, and the indict ment…
1Opinion of the CourtWoods, J.
The indictment charges ‘ that C. W. Crawford, in Pickens county, Alabama, on the fifth day of February, A.D. 1893, did marry and have for his wife one Florence King, and afterwards, while the said Florence • King was living, in the county of At*175tala, in the State of Mississippi, on the ninth day of December, 1894, feloniously did marry and have for his wife one Roxie Gregory,” etc. These facts appear plainly enough in the' transcript, and are not controverted. The defense to the crime charged rests upon the following state of facts shown by the evidence offered by the defendant — viz.: In the…
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