State v. Crowner

The defendants in this case were prosecuted for living ¡«i a state of open and notorious adultery. The information upon which they were prosecuted charged : “That John D. Crowner and Nettie Gordon, as affiant believed, in St. Louis county, on the 1st day of May, 1873, and on divers other days and times between that day and the filing of the complaint, unlawfully did live together in a state- of open and notorious adultery, the said John D. Crowner being then and there, on the day aforesaid, a married man, and having then and there a lawful wife alive and in being, other than the said Nettie…