Burnley v. State

L. A. Smith, Sr., J.,

delivered the opinion of the Court.

Appellant was indicted and convicted in the Circuit Court of Claiborne County of the crime of bigamy under Sections 2019 and 2020, Code of 1942. Prom a judgment sentencing him to the penitentiary appellant appeals, complaining that the verdict was contrary to the weight of the evidence and that in addition thereto it and the judgment of the court thereon were contrary to the law and the evidence; and that certain instructions should have been granted him, including one for a peremptory instruction of not guilty; and that his motion for a…