Ex Parte Harris

This appeal arises from the trial court's denial of the petitioner's request to call her fifteen-year-old son as a witness in the parties' divorce action. After the judge refused to allow the son to testify, the wife made an offer of proof as to the son's expected testimony.

The Court of Civil Appeals, in affirming, found that the trial court's refusal to allow the child to testify was not reversible error because "the son's testimony would be, in view of all circumstances of this matter, merely cumulative." Harrisv. Harris, 461 So.2d 1330 (Ala.Civ.App. 1984).

We granted certiorari to resolve…