Adkins v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Virginia
The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the CourtCampbell, C. J.
Oren Weldon Adkins was arraigned, tried and convicted upon an indictment charging him with aiding and abetting Pearl Copeland Miller in the commission of the crime of bigamy. He was sentenced in conformity with the verdict of the jury to serve three years in the penitentiary.'
*593The facts are undisputed. The Commonwealth proved that on the 3rd day of September, 1938, Pearl Copeland Miller was a married woman having a living husband in Monroe county, West Virginia, from whom she had not been divorced, all of which the defendant, Adkins, well knew; that on the said 3rd day of September, 1938, she…
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