Eldridge v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the Oity Court of Montgomery, Tried before the Hon. A. D. Sayre. 'The appellant Jim Eldridge was indicted, tried and ■convicted for bigamy, in that, having a wife living, he •unlawfully married one Sylvia Williams.
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Appeal from the Oity Court of Montgomery, Tried before the Hon. A. D. Sayre. 'The appellant Jim Eldridge was indicted, tried and ■convicted for bigamy, in that, having a wife living, he •unlawfully married one Sylvia Williams. On the trial of the case, the State offered to introduce in evidence a marriage license which was issued by the Judge of Probate of Montgomery county, authorizing ■the celebration of the rite of matrimony between Jim Eldridge, colored, aud Sarah Lewis, colored. This license was dated August 23,1893, and to it there was attached the return of the preacher who performed…
1Opinion of the CourtMcOLELLAN, C. J.
The certified copies of the marriage licenses issued, to the defendant and the certificates of the officiating ministers of the solemnizations of the rites of matrimony between the parties named in the licenses, the certificates being appended to the licenses and referring to them for the names of the parties, were properly received in evidence under sections 2846 and '2847 of the Code.—Beggs v. State, 55 Ala. 108.
The testimony of the witness Robinson was in rebuttal of testimony offered by the defendant, the testimony ■of the defendant himself, as to communications between him and Robinson,…
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