Gunter v. State

MOBBOW, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of bigamy and his punishment assessed at three years confinement in the penitentiary.

The indictment charged that appellant had married Shirley Bishop and that she was his lawful and living wife, and that he subsequently married Hattie Devore. Complaint is made of the exclusion of the testimony of F. D. Bishop to the effect that, at the time his daughter Shirley was married to the appellant she was a widow and that her name was Mrs. Shirley Barfield. The bill of exceptions shows that the witness F. D. Bishop had testified in the case as a witness for the'…