Goolsby v. State
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Indictment for bigamy; from Heard superior court—Judge Terrell. May 31, 1919. The indictment charged that Goolsby unlawfully married Mrs. Dora Adams Creel when his lawful wife, Mattie Goolsby, was living.
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Indictment for bigamy; from Heard superior court—Judge Terrell. May 31, 1919. The indictment charged that Goolsby unlawfully married Mrs. Dora Adams Creel when his lawful wife, Mattie Goolsby, was living. From the evidence it appears that in July, 1918, while living in the home of Mrs. Creel and her husband in Heard county, Georgia, and while his wife, Mattie Goolsby, was living in this State, the defendant filed in Bandolph county, Alabama, in the circuit court, a petition for divorce from Mattie Goolsby, alleging that he was a bona fide resident of that State and had been such “for a period…
1Opinion of the CourtLuke, J.
The defendant in this case was convicted of bigamy. The evidence was conclusive that he had a living wife at the time of marrying another as alleged in the indictment. He claimed to *379have been divorced from his first wife by a decree of the circuit court of the 5th judicial circuit in Randolph county, State of” Alabama. The evidence authorized the jury to find that he was a resident of the State of Georgia at the time he instituted his divorce proceeding in Alabama against his wife, who also was a resident of Georgia at the time of the institution of that proceeding; and that there was no…
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- Solomon v. SolomonSupreme Court of Georgia · 1913
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