This section is from the book "Popular Law Library Vol10 Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Wills, Administration", by Albert H. Putney. Also available from Amazon: Popular Law-Dictionary.
It is no defense to a charge of bigamy that one believes his first marriage was void and that the absence of the wife released him.37 Nor can one insist upon a void divorce as a defense though he may believe it legal. Such mistake is one of law and not of fact38
 
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