Commonwealth v. Campagna

McDonald, J.,

This case is before the court in banc upon defendant’s petition to dismiss proceedings in which an order has been made against him to contribute toward the support of a child born of the bigamous marriage of his son. The admitted facts are that defendant’s son went through a marriage ceremony *479with the prosecutrix at a time when he had been previously married to another woman who was still living and from whom he had not been divorced. Of this bigamous marriage a child (now four years old) was born. Two years after the birth of the child, defendant’s son was divorced from his…