Smith v. State

Appellants were indicted, tried and convicted in the second division of the circuit court of Greene County for illegal cohabitation, and adjudged to pay .a fine of $75 each, a,s punishment therefor. An appeal has been duly prosecuted to this court from the judgment of conviction.

Appellants were indicted and convicted under § 2600 of Crawford & Moses’ Digest, which is as follows: “If any man and woman sháll cohabit together as husband and wife, without being married, each of them shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, upon the first conviction, be fined in a sum not less than…