§ 750.439Polygamy; definition; felony

Sec. 439.
    Polygamy—Any person who has a former husband or wife living, who shall marry another
 person, or shall continue to cohabit with such second husband or wife, in this state, he or she
 shall, except in the cases mentioned herein, be guilty of the crime of polygamy, a felony.
    The provisions of this section shall not extend to any person whose husband or wife shall
 have voluntarily remained beyond the sea, or shall have voluntarily withdrawn from the other
 and remained absent for the space of five years next preceding such marriage, the party
 marrying again, not knowing the other to be living within that time, nor to any person who
 shall have good reason to believe such husband or wife to be dead, nor to any person who has
 been legally divorced from the bonds of matrimony.