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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Bow v. Parsons, Sheriff.
    Parol evidence admitted to prove a witness to he an infidel.
    Action for tbe escape of Gordon Whitmore, who' was in prison upon an execution. -Case was defaulted and beard in damages.
    Tbe defendant produced a receipt under tbe band of tbe plaintiff given subsequent to tbe date of said execution, to. said Gordon purporting to be for £78, wbicb tbe plaintiff claimed to have been given for only £8. Said receipt was witnessed by one Stephen Freeman, wlm tbe plaintiff offered as a witness to prove tbat it was given for only £8. Tbe defendant objected to bis being admitted, tbat be was an infidel and disbelieved tbe being of a God, and of revealed religion.
   The court admitted parol testimony of particular conversations and declarations to evince bis infidelity. Tbe objection not being supported be was admitted.