Howell v. State

BEAUCHAMP, Judge.

Appellant was convicted on a charge of bigamy by a jury in Erath County and given two years in the penitentiary.

Admittedly, appellant was a married man and induced a young girl to go with him and get married. It seems they had difficulty in finding a preacher and, according to her testimony, he falsely represented to her that he had a marriage license and was looking for a preacher. Early the next morning, however, *192he secured a marriage license and was married by a justice of the peace, after which they went to the home of the girl’s father in the country, from which they…