State v. Atkins

HAMITER, Justice.

On April 30, 1965 a bill of information was filed in the Parish of Ouachita against Clarence Edward Atkins charging him with having committed the crime of bigamy in that on October 21, 1964 he wed a named female in the Parish of West Carroll and in the former parish intentionally and habitually cohabited with her between February 1, 1965 and March 17, 1965, during which period he was married to and not divorced from another female.

To the information the accused tendered a motion to quash, it containing an allegation that he had been finally divorced from his first wife as of…