Two articles describe the bigamy trial and outcome of D. C. Sutton, of Summerville, Chattooga County, Georgia. The first one says he was sentenced to four years. The second one apparently is correct: two years, six months. In later stories (1880) he was pardoned and released after two years in prison (six months short of his full sentence). The trial took place in Marietta, Cobb County, Georgia.
D. C. Sutton Found Guilty of Bigamy, November 1978:
The wife here is called Miss Nina Young. Contradictory evidence; each party had witnesses. D. C. Sutton was found guilty, sentenced to four years in the penitentiary.
[Source]: D. C. Sutton (untitled) in The Summerville Gazette (Summerville, Chattooga, Georgia) 1874-1889, 28 November 1878, page 3 (digital image 3), Georgia Historic Newspapers, Georgia Public Library Service, University System of Georgia.
https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/lccn/sn86053145/1878-11-28/ed-1/seq-3/print/image_574x817_from_864,1718_to_1559,2707/
(accessed 23 January 2022).
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This story says the sentence was two years and six months.
[Source]: D.C. Sutton (untitled) in The Field and Fireside (Marietta, Cobb, Georgia) 1877-18??, 28 November 1878, page 3 (digital image 3), Georgia Historic Newspapers, Georgia Public Library Service, University System of Georgia.
https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/lccn/sn89053962/1878-11-28/ed-1/seq-3/print/image_562x817_from_271,5504_to_1037,6617/
(accessed 23 January 2022).
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