State v. Deputy
New York Court of General Session of the Peace
In the trial, the State produced as a witness Annie Deputy, the wife of the defendant and mother of Lena Deputy the prosecuting witness, simply to prove the age oij the said Lena Deputy. Counsel for the defendant objected to the competency of the witness.
1Opinion of the Court
Lore, C. J.:
We rule that the witness cannot testify to that fact against her husband.
The defendant, being placed upon the stand, was asked by his counsel whether the prosecuting witness, the said Lena Deputy, was a good girl or a, bad girl; stating that he wished to prove by the defendant that he had occasion at various times to chastise the girl for unruly conduct, so as to show the motive for making, as claimed by the defendant, this false accusation against her father, thus impeaching her credibility as a witness.
Objected to by the Attorney-General as irrelevant.
Lore, C. J.:—We hold that…
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