§ 255.20 Unlawfully procuring a marriage license, bigamy, adultery:\n defense.\n In any prosecution for unlawfully procuring a marriage license,\nbigamy, or adultery, it is an affirmative defense that the defendant\nacted under a reasonable belief that both he and the other person to the\nmarriage or prospective marriage or to the sexual intercourse, as the\ncase may be, were unmarried.\n
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