WILLIAMS V. NORTH CAROLINA
325 U.S. 226 (1945)
NATURE OF THE CASE: Williams (Ds) were granted certiorari for review of a judgment from
the Supreme Court of North Carolina, which convicted defendants of bigamous cohabitation
pursuant to N.C. Gen. Stat. 14-183 (1943).
FACTS: This was a review judgments of the Supreme Court of North Carolina, affirming
convictions for bigamous cohabitation, assailed on the ground that full faith and credit, as
required by the Constitution of the United States, was not accorded divorces decreed by one
of the courts of Nevada. Williams v. North Carolina, 317 U.S. 287, decided an earlier aspect
of the controversy. It was there held that a divorce granted by Nevada, on a finding that
one spouse was domiciled in Nevada, must be respected in North Carolina, where Nevada's
finding of domicile was not questioned, though the other spouse had neither appeared nor
been served with process in Nevada and though recognition of such a divorce offended the
policy of North Carolina. The record then before did not present the question whether North
Carolina had the power 'to refuse full faith and credit to Nevada divorce decrees because,
contrary to the findings of the Nevada court, North Carolina finds that no bona fide
domicile was acquired in Nevada.'
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