Tyson v. State

Citations

• 83 Fla. 7
• 90 So. 622

Syllabus

<p>1. A marriage procured by fraud or while one of the parties thereto is actually under legal duress is voidable only and therefore valid and binding upon the parties until set aside and annulled by a court of competent jurisdiction.</p> <p>2. In a criminal prosecution of a husband and father upon a charge of unlawful desertion of his wife and unlawfully withholding from her and their child the means of support, evidence that the marriage of the parties' was procured by fraud and effected as a result of coercion is incompetent and inadmissible since it tends to prove that such marriage was voidable only.</p> <p>3. Evidence examined and found to be sufficient to support the verdict.</p>