Hanon v. State

The appellant was indicted under the Act of 1882, chap. 120, for brutally assaulting and heating his wife. At the trial the State offered the alleged wife as a witness, and ■offered to prove by her as follows:

“• That she is the wife of the traverser, was married to him four years ago last May; at that time she and traverser were residents of Maryland; they drove together to Wellersburg, Pennsylvania, and were there married by a justice of the peace, and have since lived and cohabited together as man and wife in Maryland; and that the traverser assaulted and heat her as laid in the indictment.”