... in any criminal proceeding competent or compellable to give evidence for or against himself or herself, or shall render any person compellable to answer any question tending to criminate himself or herself, or shall in any criminal proceeding render... An Index to the Statute Law of England - Page 163by George Stamp, James Edward Davis - 1862 - 468 pagesFull view - About this book
| Georgia. Supreme Court - Equity - 1884 - 922 pages
...competency is confined to such issues as involve his guilt. Our Code declares, " nor shall any wife be competent or compellable to give evidence for or against her husband" " in any criminal proceeding." Code, §3854, sub sec. 4. Besides, in Stewart vs. The State, 58 Ga., 577, the point was necessarily... | |
| Law - 1851 - 488 pages
...any question tending to criminate himself or herself; or shall in any criminal proceeding render any husband competent or compellable to give evidence...compellable to give evidence for or against her husband." The first of these sections embodies the principle which chiefly distinguishes the criminal jurisprudence... | |
| Law - 1851 - 484 pages
...any question tending to criminate himself or herself; or shall in any criminal proceeding render any husband competent or compellable to give evidence...compellable to give evidence for or against her husband." 4. "Nothing herein contained shall apply to any action, suit, proceeding or bill in any court of common... | |
| Great Britain - 1851 - 932 pages
...tending to criminate him- 1^,^ $c. self {or herself, or shall in any criminal Proceeding render any Husband competent or compellable to give Evidence...or compellable to give Evidence for or against her Husband.IV. Nothing herein contained shall apply to any Action, Not to apply to Suit, Proceeding, or... | |
| Law - 1851 - 536 pages
...distinctly recognise the principle, that neither in civil nor criminal proceedings shall a husbaud be competent or compellable to give evidence for or against his wife, or a wife competent or i í»jl í i/»t>_"Tt*!_i. .O^ .-, 1 .1 _.l. 1 This petition, which was presented... | |
| Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - Law reports, digests, etc - 1862 - 600 pages
...any question tending to criminate himself or herself, or shall in any criminal proceeding render any husband competent or compellable to give evidence...compellable to give evidence for or against her husband." 1 Phil. Ev. XV. (Ed. of 1860). Our statute omits the provision that such testimony shall not be competent,... | |
| Leonard Shelford - 1852 - 362 pages
...any criminal pro- criminate ceeding render any husband competent or compellable to give himself, 8rc. evidence for or against his wife, or any wife competent...compellable to give evidence for or against her husband. (Ibid. s. 3.) The act 14 & 15 Viet. c. 99, does not render a husband or wife competent witnesses for... | |
| Canada - Session laws - 1852 - 276 pages
...compella^le to give evidence for or against himself or herself, or shall, in any such proceeding, render any husband competent or compellable to give evidence for or against his wife, or any wife competent or compcllable to give evidence for or against her husband, or shall, in any civil proceeding, render... | |
| John Frederick Archbold - Criminal law - 1852 - 750 pages
...criminal proceeding render any husband competent or compellable to give evidence for or against his wile, or any wife competent or compellable to give evidence for or against her husband. Vide infra. Inhabitant*.] The rated inhabitants of parishes were in many instances holden to be incompetent... | |
| Samuel Warren - Election law - 1852 - 828 pages
...or shall in any tmding to criminal proceeding render any husband competent or compellable criminate to give evidence for or against his wife, or any wife competent or nimsc"' &ccompellable to give evidence for or against her husband. 4. Not to apply to proceedings in... | |
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