 Every person charged with an offence, and the wife or husband, as the case may be, of the person so charged, shall be a competent witness for the defence at every stage of the. proceedings, whether the person so charged is charged solely or jointly with...  The Encyclopaedia Britannica: Edw to Fra - Page 131910Full view - About this book
 | Edmund Powell - Evidence (Law) - 1892 - 836 pages
...and the wife or husband, as the case may be, of the person so charged, shall be a competent witness whether the person so charged is charged solely or jointly with any other person. Provided as follows : — (a) A person so charged shall not be called as a witness in pursuance of... | |
 | Canada. Parliament. Senate - Canada - 1893 - 634 pages
...anil the wife or husband, as the case may be, of the person so charged, shall be a competent witness, whether the person so charged is charged solely or jointly with any other person : Provided as follows : — (a.) A person so charged shall not be called as a witness in pursuance... | |
 | Canada - Criminal law - 1894 - 1076 pages
...wife or husband, as the case may be, of the person so charged, shall be a competent witness, wheiher the person so charged is charged solely or jointly with any other person. Provided, however, that no husband shall be competent to disclose any communication made to him by... | |
 | James Crankshaw - Canada - 1895 - 768 pages
...and the wife or husband, as the cane may be, of the person so charged, shall be a competent witness, whether the person so charged is charged solely or jointly with any other person. Provided, however, that no husband shall be competent to disclose any communication made to him by... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1913 - 580 pages
...the material language used by the Legislature is as follow: ' Every person charged with an offence shall be a competent witness for the defence at every...charged solely or jointly with any other person." In the case of King v. Hadwen,2 it was held by the then Court for Crown Cases Reserved that the effect... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons - Bills, Legislative - 1896 - 600 pages
...wife or Person husband, as the case may be, of the person so charged, shall be a competent witness, whether the person so charged is charged solely or jointly with any other person. Provided as follows : — (a.) A person so charged shall not be called as a witness in 10 pursuance... | |
 | Arthur Reginald Butterworth - Evidence, Criminal - 1898 - 142 pages
...follows : — 1. Competency of witnesses in criminal cases.] — Every person charged with an offence, and the wife or husband, as the case may be, of the...charged is charged solely or jointly with any other person.1 Provided as follows: — (a) A person so charged shall not be called as a witness in pursuance... | |
 | Great Britain, Wilfred Baugh Allen - Evidence, Criminal - 1898 - 114 pages
...so charged, of witnesses 1 11 1 • f» I 1 PO ' -m fitnvn-it-inl shall be a competent witness tor the defence at every stage of the proceedings, whether...is charged solely or jointly with any other person. Provided as follows : — (a.) A person so charged shall not be called as a witness in pursuance of... | |
 | Criminal law - 1906 - 606 pages
...and the wife or husband, as the case may be, of the person so charged shall be a competent witness whether the person so charged is charged solely or jointly with any other person," and that the learned Judge, in the comments referred to, had infringed the provision or sub-sec. 2... | |
 | Comparative law - 1899 - 304 pages
...Acts relating to special classes of offences. It enacts that every person charged with an offence, and the wife or husband, as the case may be, of the...solely or jointly with any other person. But this enactment is qualified by several provisos. The person charged must not be called as a witness except... | |
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