Kathy Fowlkes v. Flora Fowlkes
Syllabus
In this action, the petitioner sought a declaratory judgment establishing that the marriage between her deceased father and stepmother was void ab initio. The petitioner claimed that her father was not legally divorced from her mother when the marriage occurred. The trial court denied the petition, finding that the petitioner failed to rebut the validity of the second marriage. The petitioner appeals. We affirm.
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- holding sexual contact “carries a less serious injury or risk” than sexual penetration
- permitting conviction of an included offense that “differs from the offense charged only in the respect that a less serious injury . . . suffices to establish its commission”
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Judges: Judge John W. McClarty
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