Tucker v. People

Per Curiam :

This was an indictment for bigamy, upon which the defendant was convicted, and sentenced.to two years’ imprisonment in the penitentiary, and to pay a fine of $500. The indictment charged, that the defendant, on the 15th day of April, 1872, in Cook county, Illinois, married one Mary I. Bennett, who then became his lawful wife; that afterwards, on the 19th day of September, 1883, at St. Paul, in the county of Ramsey, in the State of Minnesota, he unlawfully married one Mary E. Markham, while the defendant was yet the lawful husband of the said Mary I. Bennett-, never having been…