Excerpt from In the Supreme Court of the State of California: Sarah Althea Sharon, Plaintiff and Respondent, Vs. Frederick W. Sharon, Executor, Etc., Of William Sharon (Deceased, ) Defendant and Appellant; Petition for Re-Hearing; John Currey, of Counsel for Defendant and Appellant; Filed This Day of February, 1888 After the passage of Lord Hardwicke's Act it is beyond question that a marriage such as the one now in controversy could not have been sustained. That. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

John F. Milner, defendant, is accused of the murder of S.J. Darrah on September 16, 1897 in the county of Riverside, state of California.