2005 Idaho Code - 19-3002 — HUSBAND AND WIFE AS WITNESSES

                                  TITLE  19
                              CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
                                  CHAPTER 30
                      WITNESSES IN CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS
    19-3002.  HUSBAND AND WIFE AS WITNESSES. Neither husband nor wife are
competent witnesses for or against each other in a criminal action or
proceeding to which one or both are parties, except:
    1.  With the consent of both, or
    2.  In cases of criminal violence upon one by the other; or acts of
physical injury upon a child of either the husband or the wife where the
injury has been caused as a result of physical abuse or neglect by one or both
of the parents; or to acts or attempted acts of lewd conduct with a minor
child; or
    3.  In cases of desertion or nonsupport of wife or child by the husband.

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