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1881 —Chapter 110. 167
CHAPTER 110.
AN ACT TO PERMIT DEFENDANTS IN CRIMINAL CASES TO TESTIFY
IN THEIR OWN BEHALF.
The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact
:
Section 1. That chapter forty-three, section sixteen, g^l^f'
Battle's Revisal, be amended by striking out the words tended.
" competent or compellable to give evidence for or against
himself or shall render any person."
Sec. 2. That in the trial of all indictments, complaints SSBJgg&a.
or other proceedings against persons charged with the J3"^J§£Sm
commission of crimes, offenses and misdemeanors in the h*if, atikei?own
superior, inferior, criminal and justices of the peace courts
iequest-
of this state, the person so charged shall at his own re-quest,
but not otherwise, be a competent witness, and ES^^nf6
his failure to make such request shall not create any Zmpull agtinst
, i
• defendant.
presumption against mm.
6ec 3. That on the trial of all criminal actions, the wife made com-
*j£-o. v. j-"<*» ^ petent witness
wife of the defendant shall be a competent witness for for husband,
defendant.
Sec 4. That all acts or parts of acts in conflict with conflicting laws
r repealed.
this act be and the same are hereby repealed.
Sec 5. This act shall take effect from and after its rati-fication.
In the general assembly read three times, and ratified
this the 19th day of February, A. D. 1881.
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