State v. Green
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Indictment for the murder of Mary H. Green by poison; tried to the jury in the Superior Court, on the plea of not guilty, before Loomis and Granger, Js.
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Indictment for the murder of Mary H. Green by poison; tried to the jury in the Superior Court, on the plea of not guilty, before Loomis and Granger, Js. On the trial the State offered evidence to prove, and did prove, that the accused, by the name of G. W. Long, was married to a woman by the name of Doolittle, before he married Mary H. Green, the deceased; that said former wife was still living at the date of the trial, and that he had never been divorced from her, but had (after cohabiting with her for a few months) abandoned her, and soon thereafter was married to the deceased by the name…
1Opinion of the CourtPark, J.
We think the action of the court below in allowing the prosecutor to prove the former marriage of Green,is fully sustained by the case of The Stale v. Watkins, 9 Conn., 47. Green was on trial for the willful murder of Mary H. Green, his putative wife. He had married her to all appearance, for the ceremony of marriage had been performed in- respect to them by competent authority, and so far as the world knew, or the jury could know from the transaction itself, she was in fact his wife. Hence it appears that, unless the prosecutor had been permitted to prove the character of this pretended…
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