Hoagland v. State

Indictment against the appellant for a rape. Trial, and conviction. On the trial, the defendant offered himself as a witness, but the State objecting, he was rejected. This ruling presents the only question arising in the case.

The trial was had after the act of March 11, 1801, (Acts 1861, p. 51,) took effect. That act repeals § 238 of the code, *489and enacts, among other things, that “ every free white person of competent age, shall be a competent witness in any civil cause or proceeding, and no person shall be disqualified as a witness by reason of interest in the event of that, or any other…