Filtingberger v. State

Ed. F. McFaddin, Justice.

Appellant was convicted of the crime of bigamy (§ 41-801, Ark. Stats., 1947) and prosecutes this appeal. Tbe motion for new trial contains thirteen assignments which we group and discuss under topic headings.

I. Insufficiency of the Evidence. Viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the State (as we do on appeals in criminal cases),1 the testimony reflects that appellant was legally married to Geneva Adams Filtingberger at the time he married Jo Ann Layton in Crawford County, Arkansas, on April 9, 1949. Geneva Adams Filtingberger had a divorce action pending…