BIGAMY APPEAL
A NOVEL%EFENCE. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) ADELAIDE, July 23. Reginald Kennedy, convicted of bigamy, appealed to the Full Court against, the conviction. Evidence disclosed that Kennedy married his first cousin. Both were Roman Catholics, and his priest informed him that under the laws of consanguinity of the Catholic Church first cousins could not. marry and the ceremony was no marriage. The parties never lived together. Kennedy believing himself unmarried, subsequently married another woman . The Court held Kennedy’s mistaken belief that the first marriage was invalid was based on an erroneous view of the law, but that was no defence. Marriage between first cousins was lawful and binding, therefore the conviction must stand.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 23 July 1923, Page 2
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