Byers v. State

The plaintiff in error was indicted for bigamy. The indictment, which is set out in the record, is in proper form and free from objection. Upon this indictment he was arraigned, pleaded not guilty, submitted his case to the Court for trial, and was found guilty. He then moved in arrest of judgment, stating as the ground of his motion that the words “Jennie Y. Miller,” the name of the woman whom he was charged to have married during the life of his wife, were not found by the grand jury in their finding of the “ true bill against him,” hut were improperly and without warrant inserted after…