Milligan v. State

We think the judgment in this case ought to be reversed because the charge made eannot be sustained in law.

Chapter 7828, Acts of 1919, provides that no marriage license shall be issued unless there shall be first presented and filed with the County Judge an affidavit in writing, signed by both “parties” to the marriage, stating certain facts.

In this case the affidavit was never signed nor sworn to by both of the “parties” to the marriage. On the contrary, it affirmatively appears that one of the “parties” who signed the affidavit' was one Beatrice Bryant, who was not a “party” to the marriage…