Bryant v. State

McGowen,

J., delivered the opinion of the court.

The appellant, Bobert Bryant, was convicted on an indictment charging bigamy, the pertinent part of which is as follows: “That Bobert Bryant on the 6th day of July, 1936, in Forrest County aforesaid: being then and there legally married to Mrs. Melinda Parker Bryant did then and there wilfully, unlawfully, feloniously, knowingly and bigamously marry and have for his wife, one Hattie Byrd.”

After the appellant had entered a plea of not guilty in the aforementioned indictment, and after a jury had been impaneled to try the case and both sides were…