Commonwealth v. Jackson
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 24 — INDICTMENT FOR BIGAMY APPEAL PROM LEWIS CIRCUIT COURT. CITED General Statutes, chap. 29, art. 4, sec. 10.' 1 Mar. 290, ICibby v. Ruclrer. 2 Greenleaf’s Ev. see. 49. 2 Fairf. 391, Harris’s case. 7 Greenleaf, Cayford’s ease. 2 Ya.
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Case 24 — INDICTMENT FOR BIGAMY APPEAL PROM LEWIS CIRCUIT COURT. CITED General Statutes, chap. 29, art. 4, sec. 10.' 1 Mar. 290, ICibby v. Ruclrer. 2 Greenleaf’s Ev. see. 49. 2 Fairf. 391, Harris’s case. 7 Greenleaf, Cayford’s ease. 2 Ya. Ca. 95. 4 McCord, 255, State v. Britton. 3 Richardson’s Rep. 434, State v. Hilton. 8 Serg. & R. 159, Forney v. Hallacher. 2 Scam. 231, Jackson v. The People. 16 Car. & Kir. 167, Rex v. Simmons. 19 Maine, 155, State v. Hodgkins. 11 Ga. 58, Cook v. State. 14 Ala. 546, Cameron v. State. 16 Ohio, 173, Wolverton v. State. CITED 3 Greenleaf on Ev., sec. 204. 4…
1Opinion of the Court
JUDGE GOFER
delivered the opinion op ti-ie court.
The appellee was indicted in the Lewis Circuit Court for the crime of bigamy, and was tried by a jury, and under a peremptory instruction of the court was found not guilty, and the Attorney General prosecutes this appeal under section 331 of the Criminal Code in order to obtain the opinion of this court upon the point decided adversely to the commonwealth by the circuit court.
The only evidence of a marriage of the appellee prior to that alleged to be polygamous consisted of evidence of his declarations that another woman, was his wife, and of…
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