Lashley v. State

Deen, Judge.

The defendant was convicted of aggravated sodomy of his ten-year-old stepson. Held:

1. The testimony of the victim together with corroborating circumstances, including evidence impounded and examined by the State Crime Laboratory, supports the verdict.

2. The defendant’s common law wife invoked and was granted the privilege of not testifying against her husband, but the complaint is that in spite of this certain objectionable information was elicited from her. The elicitation of evidence tending to substantiate her position that she was entitled to the status of such a wife was not…