People v. Dawell
Michigan Supreme Court
Exceptions from St. Joseph Circuit.
1Opinion of the CourtCooley, J.
This defendant has been convicted of bigamy, and notv, upon exceptions, asks that the verdict be set aside. Both the marriages were admitted. The first took place in 1857; the second was to one Minnie Kopp, in August, 1871, while the first wife was still living. The defense was, that before the second marriage the defendant had been divorced from his first wife, on her application. To establish this, he gave in evidence a copy of the record of a proceeding in the court of common pleas of Noble county, Indiana, which contained: 1. What purported to be a complaint of Mary, the first wife,…
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