United States v. Snow
Utah Supreme Court
Appeal fronT’á judgment of the district court of the first district, and from an order refusing a new trial. The appellant requested the trial court to give each of the following instructions: 2. The term “cohabit” means “live with,” or “dwell with,” and in the act under which the defendant is indicted it means to live with as wives. 3. To constitute “cohabitation” there must be such a frequency or regularity and manner of association of a man and woman as to amount to a…
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Appeal fronT’á judgment of the district court of the first district, and from an order refusing a new trial. The appellant requested the trial court to give each of the following instructions: 2. The term “cohabit” means “live with,” or “dwell with,” and in the act under which the defendant is indicted it means to live with as wives. 3. To constitute “cohabitation” there must be such a frequency or regularity and manner of association of a man and woman as to amount to a “living together,” and distinguish the association from mere visits, and so long as there is not a “living together,”…
1Opinion of the Court
Zane, C. J.:
The defendant was convicted of the crime of unlawful cohabitation and sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary for the term of six months, and to pay a fine of three hundred dollars and the costs of the prosecution. Prom this judgment he has appealed to this court, and insists that the evidence is insufficient to justify the verdict.
At the commencement of the trial the defendant admitted before the court and jury that he had married each of the seven women named in the indictment; had not been divorced from either, and that he claimed all of them as his wives and furnished…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Cannon v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1885
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