Legal Opinion
In Re Watson
Supreme Court of Rhode Island
Decided January 23, 1896PublishedCited by 4 opinions
Petition for a writ of habeas corpus.
1Opinion of the CourtTillinghast, J.
This is habeas corpus, and is brought to determine whether the petitioner is lawfully imprisoned by virtue of a conviction and sentence in the Common Pleas Division. The indictment, on which the petitioner was tried and convicted, charges that Francis C. Watson, of Hopkinton, in the county of Washington, on the 9th day of October, 1870, at Sterling in the State of Connecticut, was lawfully married to Melinda Buddington and the said Melinda Buddington then and there had and took for his lawful wife, and that afterwards, and whilst he was so married to the said Melinda Buddington, then Melinda…
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