People v. Crawford
New York Supreme Court
Appeal from court of sessions, Ulster county. Indictment for bigamy against Henry M. Crawford, in that defendant, having been married in 1887, in New Jersey, to Laura Ann Lane, was after-wards, during the life of the said Laura Ann Lane, married in New York to •one Leona Du Bois.
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Appeal from court of sessions, Ulster county. Indictment for bigamy against Henry M. Crawford, in that defendant, having been married in 1887, in New Jersey, to Laura Ann Lane, was after-wards, during the life of the said Laura Ann Lane, married in New York to •one Leona Du Bois. Defense was that the New Jersey marriage was void •under the laws of New Jersey because of a prior marriage of defendant to one Beatrice V. Butters in New York, who was living at the time of the New Jersey marriage, to prove which marriage to Butters defendant offered in evidence the following certificate: “This is…
1Opinion of the CourtMayham, J.
The defendant, before pleading to the merits of the indictment, demurred to the same, alleging several grounds of demurrer, which demurrer was overruled; but no point is made on this appeal on the demurrer, and it therefore requires no discussion here; and, so far as appears, the demurrer was properly disposed of by the trial judge. The first ground urged by appellant for the reversal of this conviction is that the defendant’s alleged marriage in Hew Jersey to Laura Ann Lane was void under the laws of Hew Jersey, where it occurred, by reason of his previous marriage to one Beatrice Vulcan…
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