CURIOUS BIGAMY CASE.
FIRST COUSINS' MARRIAGE.
LAWFUL AND BINDING,
(Received 10.20 a.m.)
ADELAIDE, This Day!
Reginald Kennedy, recently convicted of bigamy, appealed to the Full Court against his conviction. The evidence disclosed that Kennedy married his first cousin, both being Roman Catholics. 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 had never lived together, Kennedy believing himself unmarried. Subsequently he married another woman.
The Court held that Kennedy's mistaken belief that his first marriage was invalid was based on an erroneous yiew of the law, but that waa no defence. Marriage between first cousins was lawful and binding, therefore the conviction must stand. —A. and N.Z.
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Northern Advocate, 23 July 1923, Page 5
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125CURIOUS BIGAMY CASE. Northern Advocate, 23 July 1923, Page 5
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