R v James Hugh Edwards, alias Charles Edwards
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Judgment Date | 01 January 1814 |
| Date | 01 January 1814 |
| Court | High Court of Chancery |
English Reports Citation: 168 E.R. 804
LINCOLN'S INN
1814. rex t;. james hugh edwards, alias charles edwards. (Bigamy. If the prisoner write down the names for the publication of the banns, he will be precluded thereby from saying that the woman was not known by the name he delivered irr, and that ahe is not rightly described by that name in the indictment.) The prisoner was tried before Newman Knowlys, Esq., Common Serjeant, at the Old Bailey October sessions, in the year 1814, on an indictment, charging that he on the llth of November, 50 Geo. III., at Saint Andrew Holborn, by the name of James Hugh Edwards, took to wife one Jemima Hart, and to her was married, aadthat he afterwards on the 30th of October, on the 54 Geo. III. [284] at St. James's, Westminster, by the name of Charles Edwards, feloniously took to wife one Anna Tlmson, and to the said Anna Timson was married ; the said Jemima, his former wife, being alive, against the statute, &c. The first marriage was proved by the brother, who was present, and witnessed the register of the marriage, and the sister of the first wife proved that the prisoner RUSS. ft RY. 89. BEX V. HUDSON 805 left Ms first wife at Walworth, the very morning that he was married to the second wife at St. James's Church, and that the first wife was then living. The second marriage was proved by the prisoner's hand-writing to the note for the publication of banns, and his signature f " Charles Edwards," to the register of the second marriage. The hand-writing of the name " Anna Timaon," in the same register of the second marnage at St. James's, Westminster (as the person thea married to the said Charles Edwards), was proved by her father. The father likewise proved the...
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