D. C. Sutton Found Guilty of Bigamy. Penitentiary.

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:

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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.

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[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).

D. C. Sutton is Captured and Returned to Jail, 1878

D. C. Sutton Captured

[Quoted from The Field and Fireside, October 1878]:

"D. C. Sutton has been captured and returned to this place, and now has plenty of leisure to ruminate upon the chances of another escape."

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[Reference]: D. C. Sutton (untitled item) in The Field and Fireside (Marietta, Cobb, Georgia) 1877-18??, 03 October 1878, page 3 (digital image 3), Georgia Historic Newspapers, Georgia Public Library Service, University System of Georgia.
https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/lccn/sn89053962/1878-10-03/ed-1/seq-3/print/image_578x817_from_325,4282_to_1072,5337/
(accessed 23 January 2022).

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The capture (above) occurred in Alabama, near Mr. Shamblin's.

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[Reference]: Sutton (untitled) in The Summerville Gazette (Summerville, Chattooga, Georgia) 1874-1889, 03 October 1878, page 3 (digital image 3).
https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/lccn/sn86053145/1878-10-03/ed-1/seq-3/print/image_574x817_from_230,3712_to_943,4727/
(accessed 23 January 2022). 

D. C. Sutton of Summerville in Bigamy Case, 1878

D. C. Sutton, of Summerville, Chattooga, Georgia, (formerly of Walker County, Georgia, and before that, of Marietta, and of Chattanooga) was charged with bigamy. According to the article, his name, originally, was A. D. Sutton, of Marietta. He had married a Miss Lena Young on 5 December 1875 at the Episcopal Church in Marietta. He and his wife left that day for Chattanooga. "Afterward, Mrs. Sutton, strange to say, entered the Columbia (Tenn.) College as a student, and her liege lord left her, reporting that he intended to return to the United States Coast Survey party near Sand Mountain, Alabama."
    Mrs. Sutton stayed in college a few months and returned home to her parents. Her husband sent word that he would come home, but never did. His wife received a letter saying her husband had been murdered on Sand Mountain.
    Later, according to the complaint, a man named D. C. Sutton, who fit the description of the woman's  husband, was found living in Lafayette, Walker, Georgia, married to another woman.
    Cobb County court filed suit against him for bigamy. D. C. Sutton denied that he was A.D. Sutton, but "submitted to arrest and gave the necessary bail." 

Case called: Tuesday, Marietta. Sutton appeared with a number of witnesses. Defendant claimed mistaken identity. Case continued till next term; defendant paid $1,000 and $500 for the new bills (against him). He returned to Chattooga County, "where in the last month he moved his family from Walker County."
   "If Sutton establishes his innocence this case will rival that of the two Dromios in the play."

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[Source]: D. C. Sutton in "Is He a Bigamist or Not?" (citing the Marietta Journal), The Macon Telegraph and Messenger (Macon, Macon, Georgia) 1873-188?, 24 March 1878, page 2 (digital image 2), Georgia Historic Newspapers, Georgia Public Library Service, University System of Georgia.
https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/lccn/sn85038493/1878-03-24/ed-1/seq-2/print/image_605x817_from_2627,4577_to_4713,7393/
(accessed 23 January 2022).