Court Opinion

ID: 8319838
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-10-17 20:13:52.635072+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:45:02.349469
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Metcalf, J.
It is said in the text books that persons convicted of treason, felony, or the crimen falsi, are incompetent to be witnesses. Roscoe on Ev. 78; 1 Greenl. on Ev. § 373. But the offence, of which Cummings was convicted, was *385neither of these three, and we .nowhere find that a conviction of any other offence renders the convict incompetent to testify.
In the case of United States v. Brockius, 3 Wash. C. C. 99, it was decided that a person convicted of the crime of assault and battery with intent to murder was, nevertheless, a competent witness. That case is analogous to the present.

Exceptions overruled.