Legal Opinion
Cornett v. Commonwealth
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Decided September 23, 1909PublishedCited by 9 opinions
CASE 76 — PROSECUTION BY COMMONWEALTH AGAINST LLOYD CORNETT FOR BIGAMY: — Appeal from Harlan Circuit Court. Defendant convicted and appeals. —
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion of the court by
Chief Justice Nunn
Affirming.
*614This appeal is from a conviction under the following indictment:
“The grand jury of Harlan county, in the name and by the authority of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, accuses Lloyd Cornett of the crime of bigamy, committed in manner and form as follows, viz: The said Lloyd Cornett on the 26th day of October, 1909, before the finding of this indictment and in the county and state aforesaid, having a wife then living by the name of Sarah Cornett, whose name before she married him was Sarah Lewis, to whom the said Lloyd Cornett was lawfully married…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Davis v. CommonwealthCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1877
- Faustre v. CommonwealthCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1891
3Cited by9 opinions
- Commonwealth v. MixerMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1910
- Schell v. PeopleSupreme Court of Colorado · 1918
- Geisselman v. GeisselmanCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1919
- Rose v. RoseCourt of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976) · 1938
- Joseph George Boufford v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1956
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