Territory of Arizona v. Alexander
Arizona Supreme Court
APPEAL from a judgment of the District Court of the Fifth Judicial District, in and for the County of Graham. Frederick S. Nave, Judge. The facts are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtSloan, J.
— In the district court of Graham county one James L. Alexander was indicted and charged, under section 246 of the Penal Code, with the crime of bigamy. The district court sustained a general demurrer to the indictment, upon the ground that, Congress having defined and provided for the punishment of bigamy in the territories, the territorial statute was thereby deprived of any force or effect. From this ruling the territory has appealed.
The territorial statute is not materially different in its import, except -as to the punishment prescribed, from the federal statute. In both the common-law…
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