PER CURIAM.
G.S. § 8-57, since the 1951 amendment, provides expressly that a wife is a competent witness against her husband in a criminal prosecution for bigamous cohabitation under G.S. § 14-183 "to prove the fact of marriage." Here the wife's testimony goes beyond the prescribed limit. This is conceded by the Attorney-General.
In State v. Setzer, 226 N.C. 216, 37 S.E.2d 513, 514, this Court conceding, without deciding, that G.S. § 8-57, before...
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