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- Title: Mayfield
- Author : Supreme Court of the United States
- Release Date : January 25, 1891
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 54 KB
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Petitioner was indicted for a violation of the third section of the act of March 3, 1887, 24 Stat. 635, c. 397, entitled "An act to amend an act entitled An act to amend section fifty-three hundred and fifty-two of the Revised Statutes of the United States, in reference to bigamy, and for other purposes, approved March twenty-second, eighteen hundred and eighty-two." The section reads as follows: "That whoever commits adultery shall be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary not exceeding three years; and when the act is committed between a married woman and a man who is unmarried, both parties to such act shall be deemed guilty of adultery; and when such act is committed between a married man and a woman who is unmarried, the man shall be deemed guilty of adultery." Rev. Stat. sec. 5352, to which this is an amendment, provided for the punishment of bigamy when committed "in a Territory, or other place over which the United States have exclusive jurisdiction." But the applicability of the act of March, 1887, to this case is apparent from sec. 2145, title 28, chapter 4, entitled "Government of Indian country," which reads as follows: "Except as to crimes the punishment of
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