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 WITNESSES. ]3 CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE. WITNESSES. See see. 876. Interested parties may be witnesses. 886. Service of notice and copy. 877. Exceptions. _ _ 887. Cross-interrogatories. 878. Testimony in certain criminal cases. 888. Commission. 879. No exclusion on account of color. 889. Duties of commissioner. 880. Fees of witnesses. , 890. Exhibits.' 881. Commissioners to take testimony in 891. Certiticate and return. criminal cases. ¤ 892. Deviations. 882. Who may  commissioners. 893. Court may establish further rules. 85%. What commission must state. 894. Proof of wills by commission. 884. Notice to district attorney. 895. Will to accompany commission. 885. Contents of notice. , 896. Effect of deposition. _ Sm:. 876. On_the trial of any issue joined, or of any matter or ques- Interested purtion, or on any inquiry arising in any suit, action, or other proceeding ¤i·>¤ mw b° WW in any court of justice in the District, or before any person having by 'l‘?l°'ié..._. law, or by consent of parties, authority to hear, receive, and examine 2 J¤l¥· 186% °· evidence within the District, the parties thereto, and the persons in gg? "· 1** PP··‘m* whose behalf any' such action or proceeding may be brought or defended, éauk Og- Colm. and all persons interested in the same, shall, except as provided in the bia ra. Wright, 3 following section, be competent and compellable to give evidence, either C¥¤¤°h» O-@216} viva voce or by deposition, according to the practice of the court, on §;;§cf"g°g”Q§g3 behalf of any of the parties to the action or other proceeldipg. H"] ’" ` Bee .s., 87. Sec. 877. Nothing in the preceding section shall iender any? person Exceptions. who is charged with an odense in any criminal proceeding competent ’g{gf_—; or compellable to give evidence for or against himself; Sg,¤dergqu’g ease, Or render any person compellable to answer any question tending to 3Cranch, C.C.,638; criminate mmsenr, gw-! dsggggug- Or render a husband competent or compellable to give evidence for or Cf'C_ "§],,,’_ ’ against his wife, or a wife competent or compellable to give evidence for ’ or against her husband, in any criminal proceeding or in any proceeding instituted in mnsequence of adultery; Nor shall a husband be compellable to disclose any communication made to him by his wife during the marriage, nor shall a wife be compellable to disclose any communication made to her by her husband during the marriage. _ _ Sno; 878. Every person accused or convicted of obtaining by false 'lycstirnonyin cerpretenses any goods or chattels, money, bank-note, promissory note, or Wn °"¤"¤¤*°*°°°· any other instrument in writing, for the payment or dehvery of money, g Mum,, 1831, C, or other valuable thing, or of keeping a faro-bank or gaming-table, or ot 37, s. 12, v. 4ép.4§>); violating the laws relating to dueling, shall be a. competent witness EOGFSDE 1,83 {9* » against every other person ohending in the same transaction, and may ‘ * ‘ ’ ‘ ' be compelled to appear and give evidence in the same manner as other persons; but the testimony so given shall not be used ID any prosecu— _ tion or proceeding, civil or criminal, against the person so testifvmg. _ Sec. 879. In all judicial proceedings in the District there shall be no Mgjou rou exclusion of any witness on account of color. {scc n.s.v.s;;`;w]1.11862 154 uy, ,c. ,s. ,v. ,p. . Sec. 880. Witnesses are entitled to the same com pensationas received FMS of Wi¤¤¤¤¤¤S· for their attendance in the circuit courts of the .DlS:l‘l0t sprmr to July '1 9; Ju]! lg? c_ °.' .l., 9. ,s,',v. , . “°'°"“" “‘g“‘°°‘$.£‘“"r‘?.I}i1?.“§3.£§‘1£Ti.S}i€i?§t. ES`?'...}';;? C. .2, .1., United S.  W.n,*°. Cranch, C. C., 178; Sadler ur. Moore, 1 Cranch, C. C., 212; Power va. Semmes, 1 Crunch, C.C.,241. COMMISSIONS FOB TAKING TESTIMONY IN CRIMINAL CASES. - . fendantin acriminal case, either after preliminary Commissions to °*§§*l“‘$?;“·i:g‘g‘;“i“°* °’i*if2.i"‘§"“‘2i.‘a'€‘¤$¥.2Z3“ZL‘L‘Z§ii‘.“§“§§.‘€§2.EZ}"` 2`?£iJ¥T‘é¥2`é’3? “` "““‘°“ ‘“ *"° "‘“““°' *"°“°“ y 3 n., nc,. wt, .. 1, .. n, P. ts.