Legal Opinion
State v. Von Klein
Oregon Supreme Court
Decided June 16, 1914PublishedCited by 24 opinions
From Multnomah: John P. Kavanaugh, Judge. Tlie defendant, E. E. C. Von Klein, was indicted, tried and convicted in the Circuit Court of Multnomah County of polygamy and sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary for the term of from one to four years, and appeals. Department 1.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Ramsey
delivered the' opinion of the court.
On December 13,1913, the grand jury of Multnomah County returned an indictment against the defendant, charging him with the commission of the crime of polygamy committed as follows:
“The said E. E. 0. Von Klein, alias George B. Lewis, on the 12th day of October, A: D. 1911, in the county of Multnomah and State of Oregon, then and there being, did then and there knowingly and feloniously live and cohabit with a woman, to wit, one Ethel Newcomb, as his wife, he (the said defendant) then and there having a wife then living, to wit, Louise 111-strup Von Klein,…
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