Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION, reported by SIR JOHN LAUDER OF FOUNTAINHALL Subject_2 SUMMER SESSION.
George Grahame, Malloch, v. Weddale
Date: 1 January 1678
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Upon a report report in præsentia, in a case of George Grahame, Malloch, and Weddale, John Frazer was simply repelled from bearing witness in any cause, because of this objection,—That he was convicted of bigamy, and so, by Act of Parliament, is infamous, though he had a remission therefore: but here there was no penuria testium.
It seems strange, in our law, that adultery shall be death, and bigamy only punished with an inferior arbitrary pain. Infra, [28th May 1678, Historical Volume,] Bruchton's case.
