GRACE v. STATE

No. 38167.

212 Miss. 784 (1951)

55 So.2d 495

GRACE v. STATE.

Supreme Court of Mississippi, Division B.

December 10, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Grover C. Doggette, for appellant.

Geo. H. Ethridge, Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.


Alexander, J.

This is an appeal from a conviction of bigamy. Appellant and Eddie Mae Blanks were married August 12, 1935. Appellant contracted another marriage with Cloteal Jones, December 25, 1948.

Error is assigned for the failure of the State to prove the former wife to be alive at the time of the second pretended marriage. The record amply shows that she was living at the time of the trial.

Further error is based upon an alleged variance...

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