Cobb v. State

Citations

• 82 Fla. 233
• 89 So. 417

Syllabus

<p>CRIMINAL LAW — INFORMATION CHARGING CRIME SUBSTANTIALLY IN LANGUAGE OF STATUTE —EVIDENCE —MARRIAGE CERTIFICATE.</p> <p>1. An information that charges that the defendant “did live in a state of open adultery” is sufficient, though the statute denouncing the crime, uses the language “living in an open state of adultery.”</p> <p>2. In a trial for crime, a paper .purporting on its face to have been issued in another State, and to have been signed by a deputy clerk of the municipality of New York, that has no seal of any court or office, and is not authenticated in any manner, and there is nothing to identify the authenticity or genuineness of the paper as being tona fide what it purports to he on its face, is not. admissible in evidence to prove a marriage of the defendant.</p>