Supreme Court of Alabama November 15, 1891 (Owens & Beaty v. State)

WALKER, J.

— The defendants, Joe Owens and Prudence Beaty, were convicted on the charge of living together in a state of adultery or fornication. The cohabitation was not denied, but the defendants claimed that they had been duly married. There was evidence tending to show that, at the time of their alleged marriage, the female defendant was the wife of one Beaty.