State v. Crowley
Supreme Court of Alabama
On points referred from the Circuit Court of Lawrence, by the Hon. G. W. Lane. The defendant was indicted as a married man, for living in adultery from the first day of January, 1844, to the first day of September of the same year, with Jane McMichael, a married woman. A verdict assessing a fine of $100 was rendered against the defendant, and judgment was rendered accordingly.
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On points referred from the Circuit Court of Lawrence, by the Hon. G. W. Lane. The defendant was indicted as a married man, for living in adultery from the first day of January, 1844, to the first day of September of the same year, with Jane McMichael, a married woman. A verdict assessing a fine of $100 was rendered against the defendant, and judgment was rendered accordingly. The points reserved as novel and difficult may be thus stated: 1. The husband of Mrs. McMichael was examined as a witness for the State, and testified that in August, 1843, his wife went to live in defendant’s family,…
1Opinion of the CourtCollier, C. J.
The premonition of the husband of Mrs. McMichael, and the response of the defendant to him, upon her going to live in the family of the latter, does not in itself tend to establish the charge of adultery; and we cannot very well perceive how it could be connected with other evidence, so as to assist in proving the fact. It cannot be inferred from the witness’s assertion, that his wife had ruined him and would ruin the defendant, and the answer of the latter that she must live some where, and he would not drive her from his house, that the defendant was guilty of the ofFence charged. Merely…
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