People v. Rice

The defendant pleaded guilty to an attempt to commit bigamy, a felony, and the question now is, whether he is to be sentenced as a second offender pursuant to the provisions of section 1941 of the Penal Law which justifies such punishment where a person who, after having been once or twice convicted of a felony under the laws of any other State of a crime which, if committed within this State, would be a felony, commits any felony within this State, etc.

*592In 1919 the defendant married one Mary Wright, from whom he has never been divorced and who still is his legal wife. On October 1, 1922, he…