Legal Opinion

Pennegar v. State

Tennessee Supreme Court

Decided January 29, 1889PublishedCited by 42 opinions

PROM DEKALB. Appeal in error from Circuit Court of DeKalb County. M. D. SmallmaN, J.

1Opinion of the CourtFolkes, J.

The defendants wore indicted for lewdness, tried and convicted, and have appealed in error to this Court.

The record discloses the following facts: E. N. ITaney was divorced from her husband, John Haney, by a decree of the Circuit Court of DeKalb County, upon the petition of the husband, charging her with adultery with ¥m. Pennegar. The decree adjudged the charge fully proven, and the divorce was granted the husband solely upon such charge.

The divorced wife and the partner in her guilt, shortly after the divorce, went to Jackson County, *246State of Alabama, where they were married to each other,…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. Commonwealth v. LaneMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1873
  2. Inhabitants of Medway v. Inhabitants of NeedhamMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1819
  3. State v. . KennedySupreme Court of North Carolina · 1877
  4. Scott v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1869

3Cited by42 opinions

  1. Lanham v. LanhamWisconsin Supreme Court · 1908
  2. Heflinger v. HeflingerSupreme Court of Virginia · 1923
  3. Estate of StullSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1898
  4. Wilson v. CookIllinois Supreme Court · 1912
  5. Jennings v. JenningsTennessee Supreme Court · 1932

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