HUSBAND AND WIFE.
PECULIAR APPLICATION OF A LAW POINT. The law dial a. woman shall not give evidence against her husband had a peculiar application in the course of the hearing of a bigamy case in the Supreme Court yesterday afternoon. The (drown Prosecutor, Mr C. A. Loughnan, called a lady with Whom it was alleged the accused had gone through a form of marriage while his lirst wife was Mill alive. The lady had commenced to state that sln> had gone through a form of marriage with iho man. when his Honour, Mr Justice. Chapman, intervened that the evidence was not admissible on the grounds that the woman could 'not be asked to give evidence against her husband. Mr Loughnnn: Rut he is not her husband. His Honour: (low do yon know? Mr Longhnan: The first wile is still alive.
His Honour: Well that has to be proved. If you prove that lie is not her husband the evidence i> admissible, but until you do she is his wife. Mr Loughrtun then proceeded to call other evidence and the lady was given a seat to await the trend of events.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1887, 11 August 1920, Page 6
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