State v. Vance

BRANCH, Justice.

Defendant assigns as error the instructions of the trial judge concerning the defendant’s wife’s testimony as an interested witness. In this connection, the trial judge charged:

“This defendant’s wife testified in the case. The court charges you that she is an interested witness; that she is interested in the outcome of your verdict. And so the court charges you that you should scrutinize and look carefully into her testimony. But that if after you have looked carefully into and scrutinized her testimony, you believe she is telling the truth about the matter, then you would…