Jeems v. State

Beck, J.. 1. Where in the trial of a criminal case a female witness was offered by the State, and her competency as a witness was challenged on the ground that she was the wife of the accused, and she was thereupon interrogated as to her matrimonial status, and she testified in substance that she was married to the accused about two years before the trial, but that she had been married previously to another named person, and that this person to whom she had previously been married was still living and she had never been divorced from him, and this testimony was uncontradicted, it was not…