Rivers v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Indictment for renting house for gaming. Before Judge Barrow. Chatham superior court. February 21, 1903. Horace Rivers was indicted jointly with Anna M. Herron and Charles H. Gibbes, for knowingly renting a house (at a given location) with the view and expectation of the same being used for the purpose of gambling. Rivers was separately tried, and was-found guilty. He excepted to the overruling of his motion for a new trial.
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Indictment for renting house for gaming. Before Judge Barrow. Chatham superior court. February 21, 1903. Horace Rivers was indicted jointly with Anna M. Herron and Charles H. Gibbes, for knowingly renting a house (at a given location) with the view and expectation of the same being used for the purpose of gambling. Rivers was separately tried, and was-found guilty. He excepted to the overruling of his motion for a new trial. The special grounds of the motion were that the court erred in admitting in evidence: (a) The testimony of Charles R. Herron (over.objection that he was incompetent as a…
1Opinion of the CourtLamar, J.
In criminal cases neither husband nor wife is competent or compellable as a witness for or against the other; but where neither is a party to the case on trial, the husband or wife is not necessarily incompetent, although the testimony may furnish the means by which the husband or wife may be prejudiced on another trial, for the Penal Code, § 1011, par. 4, does not apply in terms to such cases, and the evidence may be received notwithstanding such possible results, unless it be of the nature of the confidential communications absolutely prohibited by the Civil Code, §5198 (1). These are…
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