PEOPLE v. ROESSLER

Docket No. 1874.

217 Cal.App.2d 603 (1963)

31 Cal. Rptr. 684

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. THOMAS ROESSLER, Defendant and Appellant.

Court of Appeals of California, Fourth District.

June 25, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lightner, Hilmen & Wiles and John W. Lightner for Defendant and Appellant.

Stanley Mosk, Attorney General, William E. James, Assistant Attorney General, and Jack K. Weber, Deputy Attorney General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.


BROWN (Gerald), J.

Defendant appeals from a conviction of violating Penal Code section 281 (bigamy) after a jury trial.

On July 21, 1959, defendant married Precious Perritt. The parties separated in March 1960, and shortly thereafter they discussed the possibility of a Nevada divorce, which Precious agreed to obtain at some indefinite future date. Instead, Precious obtained an interlocutory decree of divorce in California April 25, 1960; knowledge of the divorce...

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