People v. Van Wie

After pleas of not guilty and not guilty by reason of insanity defendant was convicted by a jury of three charges of bigamy. This appeal is from the judgment of conviction and from the denial of the motion for a new trial.

Appellant contends that the evidence is insufficient to sustain the judgment because, so it is urged, the State failed to prove that a valid marriage existed at the time of the alleged bigamous marriages.

The information contains three counts charging separate violations of section 281 of the Penal Code. That section provides that: “Every person having a husband or wife…