Heard v. State

BRICKEN, Presiding Judge.

The appellant was tried upon an indictment which alleged: “The Grand Jury of said County charge that before the finding of this indictment Sherman Heard, alias William Sherman Heard, whose name is to the Grand Jury otherwise unknown than as stated, having a wife then living, unlawfully married one Jewell Willbanks, or did continue to cohabit with the said Jewell Willbanks in this state, against the peace and dignity of the State of Alabama.”

Such a joinder was permissible under Title 15, § 249 of the Code 1940, which reads as follows: “When offenses are of the same…