Having two wives sends Fults to jail for four months
Taking a second wife will cost a local man 120 days in jail on the charge of bigamy.
The defendant, Timothy Fults, was directed to serve 120 days of an 11-month, 29-day sentence after Circuit Court Judge Bart Stanley reviewed his pre-sentencing report Wednesday. In the report were numerous prior convictions, prompting the judge to enhance Fults’ punishment for the misdemeanor.
The charges against Fults were lodged when he married his present wife in April 2002. The problem with the marriage was that Fults was not yet divorced from his original wife.
Fults has obtained an official divorce from his first wife since the charges surfaced and remains married to the wife he took last year. She was present in the courtroom Wednesday, with both she and her husband dressed in identical shirts.
In his defense, Fults said he thought he was divorced from his first wife before he became re-married. Fults reportedly married his second wife two weeks after meeting her. Fults and his first wife had reportedly been apart for a while before he re-married.