Richards v. State

Tlie defendant was indicted and convicted of operating a gaming-house in violation of the Code, § 26-6401.

1. “Communications between attorney and client are, in this State, placed upon the same plane as those between husband and wife, because the lawmaking power has adjudged that the disclosure of communications between persons occupying those relations is inconsistent with the permanence of the relation,” Braxley v. State, 17 Ga. App. 196, 204 (86 S. E. 425). However, “On the trial of a husband charged with a crime, conversations between him and his wife, when relevant, may be testified to…