State v. Whitcomb
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from, Bremer District Court. The defendant was convicted of the crime of adultery, and sentenced to confinement in the penitentiary for two years. He now prosecutes this appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
Beck, Ch. J.
1. criminal law: adultery void decree of divorce. I. The evidence tended to prove that defendant and Roana Whitcomb were married in 1855, and that defendant prosecuted an action for a divorce in tbe district court of Floyd county, resulting in a -decree divorcing the parties, December 4th, 1872. On the 7th day of January, 1873, defendant was married to Rachel Patterson, with whom the crime of adultery.is charged to have been committed. November 13th, 1873, Roana Whit-comb filed a petition in tbe Floyd District Court to set aside and annul the decree of divorce on the ground that…
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