Lancaster v. State

CARR, Presiding Judge.

The accused in this case is charged with the offense of living in adultery. Title 14, § 16, Code 1940.

The cause below was tried by the court without a jury and resulted in a judgment of conviction.

We will not enter into a detailed delineation of the evidence.

It appears that the appellant, a married man, professed to be a preacher or leader of a doctrine which he claimed was based on *104Biblical authority. One aspect of this dogma was that each follower had the divine right to have a “spiritual wife.” So the accused selected or chose Lula Owen, a single woman aged 22, as his…