Jones v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Indictment for Bigamy, or Polygamy. Appeal from Wilcox Circuit Court. Tried before Hon. John Moore. Serena Jones was indicted for bigamy, or “polygamy,” at tbe Fall term, 1880, of the Circuit Court of Wilcox county.
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Indictment for Bigamy, or Polygamy. Appeal from Wilcox Circuit Court. Tried before Hon. John Moore. Serena Jones was indicted for bigamy, or “polygamy,” at tbe Fall term, 1880, of the Circuit Court of Wilcox county. On the trial, it was proven, that in the year 1878, she was lawfully married to Albert Jones, in Wilcox county, and that sbe lived with bim as bis wife for about a year, when her bus-band left her and went to the State of Mississippi, and remained there for more than a year, and then returned to Wilcox county. Meantime, the defendant had married Wil.liam Perkins, in Wilcox county,…
1Opinion of the Court
BBICKELL, O. J.
— The evidence proposed to be introduced by the appellant was, in our opinion, properly rejected. The statute imposed a penalty upon any person *86having a former wife or husband, who marries another in this State. — Code of 1876, § 4185. There are exceptions in favor of the person who has procured a decree of divorce from a court of competent jurisdiction, the decree allowing him or her to marry again ; and any person who, at the time of a second marriage, did not know his or her former husband or wife was living, if such husband or wife had been absent for the last five years…
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