Fuquay v. State

We have carefully examined the respective opinions rendered in the Court of Appeals, and are in accord with the views expressed ■ and result announced by Judge Samford.

The common-law marriage has long been sanctioned in this state (Wall v. Williams, 11 Ala. 826; Beggs v. State, 55 Ala. 108; White v. Hill, 176 Ala. 480, 58 So. 444), and that, where the fact of such a marriage is shown by the required measure of proof, the offense of bigamy may be predicated thereon.

In such a charge the burden is upon the state to establish the corpus delicti. That is, to prove beyond a reasonablé doubt (1)…