Tucker v. Tucker
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the circuit court of Lee county. Ada Tucker sued Albert Tucker, her husband’s father, charging in her declaration that the latter had maliciously enticed, persuaded, and induced her husband, Norman Tucker, to abandon her. This charge was denied, and the case was presented to a jury. The testimony was conflicting.
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From the circuit court of Lee county. Ada Tucker sued Albert Tucker, her husband’s father, charging in her declaration that the latter had maliciously enticed, persuaded, and induced her husband, Norman Tucker, to abandon her. This charge was denied, and the case was presented to a jury. The testimony was conflicting. On the cross-examination of the plaintiff’s most material witness, Immogene Hyatt, she was asked by appellant’s attorney: “Were you not arrested by the police of Indianapolis, in January or February of this year, in a house of ill fame, with a man styling himself Wilson? ” The…
1Opinion of the CourtWoods, J.
The action of the court below is complained of by the appellant in twenty-one assignments of error. We notice such only as are necessary to the determination of this appeal.
The sixth, seventh, eighth, and ninth assignments may be disposed of together, and briefly.
The conversations had between appellant and appellee, which, it is alleged, were improperly permitted to go to the jury, because not given notice of in the bill of particulars, occurred long after Norman Tucker had deserted the appellee, and were inadmissible as evidence showing, or tending to show, the substantive offense charged in…
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