People v. Heine

The defendant moves to dismiss a bigamy indictment on the ground that, his present second marriage was void under subdivision 5 of section 11 of the Domestic Relations Law since it was performed by a Justice of the Peace when he, the defendant, was 19 years of age.

*338An inspection of the Grand Jury minutes disclosed that the defendant’s marriage to Aud Irene Kvamli Heine on May 9, 1954, in the Norwegian Seaman’s Church in Brooklyn, N. Y., was never legally dissolved and was still a valid marriage when the defendant, at the age of 19 years, was married to Marie Licciardi on September 4,1955, in…