Crawford v. State

Citations

• 73 Miss. 172

Syllabus

<p>Bigamy. Marriage and divorce. Divorce in a/nother state. Direction not to remarry. Effect of same on subsequent marriages.</p> <p>On a trial for bigamy, the indictment charging that the accused, at a certain time stated, married and had for his wife a certain person named, and afterwards, at a time stated, while such person was still living, feloniously married and had for his wife a certain other person named, it is no defense to prove that by the decree of divorce from the bonds of matrimony procured by a former wife of the accused, in another state, prior to the marriage first mentioned in the indictment, he had been, under authority of the statutes of such state, directed not to marry again, for the then existing marriage was annulled by the decree, and the mere direction not to marry again, imposed on him by way of penalty, does not operate to invalidate the second marriage mentioned, or to relieve the third of its bigamous character.</p>