Edwards v. State

CARR, Judge.

The appellant was tried and convicted for the offense of bigamy. Title 14, § 47, Code 1940.

The marriage license record of Russell County, Alabama, shows that Hazel Wyatt and Willie V. Edwards were married on March 27, 1944. The same record discloses that on September 10, 1947, Hazel Edwards and James Arthur Martin were joined in wedlock.

The State proved that Willie Edwards, the first husband of the accused, was living at the time of the trial below.

The prosecution introduced as a witness the assistant clerk of the circuit court who .acted as a commissioner to take the testimony in…