Kinser v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Hurt

Reversing.

The appellant, L. L. Kinser, was indicted, in the Lawrence circuit court, at its June term, 1918, for the crime of bigamy. The indictment substantially alleged that having a living wife, to whom, he was married, in the state of Tennessee, on the 3d day of March, 1898, and whose name at the time, he married her was Lizzie Harvey, did unlawfully and feloniously marry. Ida L. Smith, in Lawrence county, on the 5th day of July, 1913. Upon his trial upon this indictment he was found guilty, by the jury, and his penalty fixed, at confinement in the…