State v. Dejean

The defendant appeals from conviction and sentence for the crime of carnal knowledge. Subsequent" to the commission of the offense he married the girl whom he is charged with having violated.

There are three bills of exception in the reco.rd, involving the question of whether or not' the subsequent marriage of the parties acted as a bar to the prosecution oí appellant on the crime charged, and whether or not the district judge'correctly admitted, on behalf of the state, the testimony of the prosecutrix, over the objection of'the defendant that, being his wife, she was incompetent to testify…