Harris v. State

HARPER, Judge.

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

The testimony of A. M. Duke, a justice of the peace in Cherokee County, shows that appellant, under the name of Harry M. Harris, was married to Miss Venia Chaney at Jacksonville on the 16th day of July, 1912, and this fact is clearly established by the record, and is not questioned by the testimony offered in behalf of appellant.

To prove that appellant was guilty of the crime of bigamy the State undertook to prove that appellant had married Miss Alice…