Martin v. State
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Washington Circuit Court; J. S. Maples, Judge; STATEMENT BY THE COURT. W. D. Martin was indicted, tried before a jury and convicted of the crime of bigamy. Sophia Lottá, the principal witness for the State, testified substantially as follows: “I first met the defendant about four years ago, when he came to our house to sell spectacles, and have seen him several times since.
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Appeal from Washington Circuit Court; J. S. Maples, Judge; STATEMENT BY THE COURT. W. D. Martin was indicted, tried before a jury and convicted of the crime of bigamy. Sophia Lottá, the principal witness for the State, testified substantially as follows: “I first met the defendant about four years ago, when he came to our house to sell spectacles, and have seen him several times since. On the 11th day of August, 1911, I saw the defendant at Westville, Oklahoma, and he wanted me to go on a trip with him. I refused to go unless he married me, and he said we would go to Fayetteville, Arkansas,…
1Opinion of the Court
Hart, J.,
(after stating the facts). Counsel for the defendant urge that the court erred in refusing to give the following instruction requested by them:
“1. The court charges the jury that voluntary intoxication is no defense to this charge, but if you believe from a preponderance of the evidence that at the time of the alleged bigamous marriage the defendant was laboring under such a defect of reason from disease of the mind, regardless of the cause of such mental condition, as not to know the nature of the act he was doing, or, if he did know it, that he was ignorant that he was doing what…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Byrd v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1905
- Casat v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1883
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