Spencer v. State
Indiana Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Vigo Court of Common Pleas.
1Opinion of the CourtPerkins, J.
At the June term, 1853, of the Vigo Court of Common Pleas, Spencer, the appellant, was convicted of bigamy, and sentenced to the state prison. He appealed to this Court; and he asks that said judgment and sentence be reversed, on the ground that the Court had no jurisdiction of the cause in which they were pronounced.
The statute creating the Court of Common Pleas, and *42conferring its jurisdiction, was approved on the fourteenth day of May, 1852, and it empowered said Court to take cognizance of certain civil cases, of certain misdemeanors, and of felonies in two specified cases: 1. When a…
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