Coy v. State

PRENDERGAST, Presiding Judge.

—Appellant was convicted of bigamy. The indictment charged that he married Nellie May England in Camden County, New Jersey, on December 4, 1905, and had her for his wife, and while she was living, on May 1, 1912, in Fayette County, Texas, unlawfully married and had for his wife one Irma E. Heilig, and on. and afterwards did unlawfully and feloniously have both of said women for his two wives at one and the same time.

Appellant’s motions for a continuance were overruled and he was forced to trial on May 11, 1914. On the trial before the court and jury, he admitted…