Cartwright v. State

The only special assignment of error was to the admission, over the objection of the defendant, of the testimony of the alleged wife of the defendant where the latter was on trial for murder. A preliminary examination of the witness, which was uncontradicted, disclosed that she had been married before; that her husband, after living with her a number of years, deserted her; that after a lapse of seven years when she had neither communicated with nor heard from him, directly or indirectly, she married the defendant in good faith and without knowledge or information that her husband was then in…