Reid v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Anniston City Court. Heard before Hon. Thomas W. Coleman, Jr. Robert Reid was convicted of bigamy and he appeals.
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Appeal from Anniston City Court. Heard before Hon. Thomas W. Coleman, Jr. Robert Reid was convicted of bigamy and he appeals. The certificates of the Secretary of State of the state of Louisiana and of the president of the hoard of health of the parish' of Orleans, said state, and of the deputy recorder of the births, marriages and deaths of said parish in said state, should not have been admitted, 1st, because they spoke of Robert L. Reid, while the indictment charged the commission of the offense by Robert Reid.— Sec. 906, 3 Fed. St. Ann. Sec. 3988, Code 1907. The court erred in permitting…
1Opinion of the CourtSimpson, J.
The appellant was convicted under an., indictment charging, bigamy. The state introduced the certificate of the president of the board of health of. the parish of Orleans, La., showing that Robert L. Reid, a native of Anniston, Ala., son of William C. *121Beid and Bella Winters, ivas married to Miss Bessie Flynn, ip New Orleans, August- 8, 1907; also the certificate of the deputy recorder of births and marriages to the same effect; also the certificate of the Secretary of State of the state of Louisiana, under the great seal of the state, that the certified copy of the record of said marriage “is…
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