Case ID: ga-app_61/html/0849-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "MacIntyre, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

27997.
    Freeman v. The State.
    Decided March 6, 1940.
    
      Hamilton & Herbert B. Kimzey, Sam Kimzey, Grover G. Oliver, J. Herbert Griggs, for plaintiff in error.
    
      J. Fred Kelley, solicitor-general, J. F. Franlcum, contra.
   MacIntyre, J.

The defendant was convicted of adultery. The only evidence of the marriage of the male with whom the defendant was alleged to have committed the adultery was the testimony of the witness that “I know Earl Canup is a married man, because he told me he was married.” This w'as not sufficient proof of such fact, the burden being upon the State to prove this essential fact (the marriage of both parties) before a conviction of either party -would be authorized. Zackery v. State, 6 Ga. App. 104 (64 S. E. 281); Tison v. State, 125 Ga. 7 (53 S. E. 809); Craft v. State, 13 Ga. App. 79 (78 S. E. 776). For methods of proving marriage in adultery cases see Miller v. State, 9 Ga. App. 827 (72 S. E. 279).

Judgment reversed.

Broyles, G. J., and Guerry, J.. conear.