Booker v. State

BRICKEN, P. .T.

The offense charged by indictment against this appellant, and for which h^e was tried and convicted, was bigamy. The indictment, in proper form and substance, charged that he, having a wife then living, unlawfully married one Annie Bell Haggans, etc.

Necessary to a conviction under this indictment the state was under the burden, as in all criminal cases, to establish the corpus delicti by competent and sufficient proof. The corpus delicti in a charge of this character consists (1) that there was a subsisting, valid prior marriage entered into by the accused, and (2) that a…