State v. Cain

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Monroe, J.

The defendant was convicted of bigamy and appeals ■from a sentence of imprisonment at hard labor.

It appears that he had been married in Georgia; that his wife had sued him for a divorce and that there had been a judgment rejecting *709her demand; that the defendant had thereafter come to New Orleans and contracted another marriage, and that, during a subsequent absence from this city, his second wife obtained some information as to his status, which led her and her friends to communicate with him and to become very insistent in demanding an…