Hilton v. State

KRUEGER, Judge.

The offense is bigamy. The punishment is assessed at confinement in the state penitentiary for a term of two years.

The record reflects that on the 3rd day of June, A. D., 1939, appellant was legally married to S. C. Hilton, and to them two children were born; that in December of 1943, her husband joined the U. S. Navy. Thereafter, on the 27th day of March, 1945, while her husband was serving his country in the Armed Forces, she married one W. J. Lockard. Both of said marriages were abundantly established by uncontradicted oral and record evidence. Her defense was that of a…