Hearne v. State

BROOKS, Judge.

This conviction is for bigamy, with five years confinement in the penitentiary fixed as the punishment. The record shows that appellant married Mrs. C. Wilson, and afterwards married Miss Lula Ellis. Both of said marriages were abundantly established by oral and record evidence.

Appellant excepts to the following portion of the court’s charge: * * * “Whatever be the form of the ceremony, or if there be no ceremony, if the parties agree to take each other for husband and wife, and from that time on live professedly in that relation, proof beyond a reasonable doubt of these facts…