People v. Lambert
Michigan Supreme Court
'Case reserved from the Wayne Circuit. Defendant was convicted upon indictment charging that, on the first day of January, 1855, at Bergen Hill, in the State of New Jersey, lie married one Nancy J. Mulholland, and that afterwards, and while the said Nancy J. was still living, on the third day of August, 1857, at Detroit, in the State of Michigan, he married one Mary Jane Brown.
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'Case reserved from the Wayne Circuit. Defendant was convicted upon indictment charging that, on the first day of January, 1855, at Bergen Hill, in the State of New Jersey, lie married one Nancy J. Mulholland, and that afterwards, and while the said Nancy J. was still living, on the third day of August, 1857, at Detroit, in the State of Michigan, he married one Mary Jane Brown. The Prosecuting Attorney commenced the evidence by introducing Stephen W. Treadwell, to prove the alleged first marriage of the defendant to Nancy J. Mulholland, by evidence of his confession, and of their…
1Opinion of the Court
Campbell J.:
This case comes up from the Court below, upon questions arising on the trial, and objections to the charge. The defendant was indicted for bigamy. The sqgond marriage was proven to have taken place in this State, and no questions arise upon it. The first marriage was alleged to have taken place in New Jersey. A witness named Treadwell, who testified that he had been a policeman and constable in New Jersey, and did not swear to any general knowledge of the laws of that State, but said he had, on account of a difficulty with his own wife, looked into those laws, was allowed to…
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