State v. . Tuttle

The basis of what appears to be the defendant’s prin-pal exceptive assignments of error is the court’s allowing certain witnesses to testify that the prosecuting witness told them of her engagement to the defendant and of their purpose to be married. These exceptions cannot be sustained. In S. v. Pace, 159 N. C., 462, wherein the defendant was charged under the same statute as is the defendant in this case, it is written: “It is settled that statements to others that the prosecutrix and the defendant were going to be. married are competent for the purpose of corroborating the testimony of the…