Hicks v. State

The appellant was indicted in the Floyd Circuit Court for bigamy. On a trial of the charge by the court without a jury, he was found guilty, and his punishment fixed at a fine of one dollar, and confinement in the jail of the county for three months, and judgment was rendered accordingly. The record and assignment of errors are sufficient to present for decision the question discussed by appellant’s counsel, namely, whether the law by virtue of which it is claimed by them appellant was convicted was not an ex post facto law as to appellant’s offense, and therefore unconstitutional. The…