People v. Burke

The defendant was convicted of the crime of bigamy upon an information charging a marriage on October 4, 1938, he then “having a wife living”. The state proved, and the defendant admitted, that he had married three separate women—one on July 30, 1936, another on July 16, 1938, and another on October 4, 1938. The first and third marriages were contracted under assumed names. Upon arraignment the defendant first pleaded guilty, then withdrew his plea and entered a plea of not guilty and admitted a prior conviction of petty theft.

The first wife was twenty-one years of age at the time of her…