NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1977 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 547

SENATE BILL 352

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND THE LAW RELATING TO TESTIMONY OF A MARRIED PERSON WHOSE SPOUSE BRINGS AN ACTION FOR CRIMINAL CONVERSATION.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 8-56, as it appears in 1969 Replacement Volume 1B of the General Statutes, is amended on lines 12 and 13 by deleting the words "the husband in which the character of the wife is assailed she" and substituting therefor the language "a married person in which the character of the spouse is assailed, that spouse".

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 13th day of June, 1977.