State v. White
Supreme Court of Kansas
Appeal from Wilson District Court. Information for bigamy. The information charged that White, being a married man, and having actual knowledge that he had a wife, to-wit, one Ella White, then being and living in the state of New York, from which said wife he had never been divorced, did, at the county of Wilson, in the state of Kansas, in the month of February 1877, unlawfully marry and take to wife another person, to-wit, one Miss M. F. McG-., etc.
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Appeal from Wilson District Court. Information for bigamy. The information charged that White, being a married man, and having actual knowledge that he had a wife, to-wit, one Ella White, then being and living in the state of New York, from which said wife he had never been divorced, did, at the county of Wilson, in the state of Kansas, in the month of February 1877, unlawfully marry and take to wife another person, to-wit, one Miss M. F. McG-., etc. White was found guilty, at the May Term 1877, and sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary, and he now brings the case here for review.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Horton, C. J.:
The defendant White was charged on information with the offense of bigamy. The first jury impanneled to try the cause could not agree, and were discharged without finding a verdict; and another jury, before which the cause was tried at the same term, rendered a verdict of guilty. Thereupon the defendant was sentenced to the penitentiary for the term of three years, and he now appeals to this court.
I. The serious error alleged is, the action of the court in compelling the defendant to disclose communications between himself and his…
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