Court Opinion

ID: 9811884
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-31 22:32:06.185185+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:22:16.720504
License: Public Domain

Cuabk, C. J.,
concurring: It will be noted that Revisal, 1564, 1630, and 1636, do not disqualify a husband or wife from being witness in their own behalf in actions for divorce or criminal conversation or in criminal actions except when such testimony would be “for or against the other.” In Broom v. Broom, 130 N. C., 562, the testimony of the wife denying the specific acts testified to by certain witnesses was not “for” the husband so as to aid him in getting divorce, nor was it against him as proving anything that he had done.
*611Rut in tbe present case tbe testimony of tbe busband, as the Court bolds, “bad a direct tendency to establish tbe ground of divorce against tbe wife.”