Mills v. United States
Wisconsin Supreme Court
EEEOE to the District Court for Iowa County. The plaintiff in error was indicted and tried for adultery. The prosecution, in order to prove the marriage of the accused, was allowed, against her objection, to prove by several witnesses that, on the occasion of the alleged marriage, there was a wedding supper, at which they were present; and, against the objection of the accused, her husband was allowed to be sworn and testify that they were lawfully married.
1Opinion of the CourtIrvin, J.
This case came up upon error to the judgment of the district court of the county of Iowa, pronounced at the April term thereof for the year A. D. 1839.
The counsel for the defendant here urge for error in the proceedings of said district court:
1st. The court erred in overruling the motion for a new trial.
2d. The court erred in overruling the motion in arrest of judgment.
*743d. The court erred in allowing Alonzo D. Mills (the husband of the plaintiff in error) to be sworn and examined as a witness against her upon the trial of the cause.
4th. The ■ court erred in allowing the evidence of witnesses,…
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