382 So. 2d 1187 - Morrison v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. ““There is a duty on every person to testify in judicial proceedings, as the public has an interest in the proper and just conclusion of cases brought into the courts of a sovereign power. In the interest of certain policies certain classes of witnesses may be exempted from this duty, even though such exemptions may tend to interfere with full disclosure of facts. Among such classes of witnesses who may be exempted from testifying are attorneys who stand in relation of attorney and client to one of the parties litigant, priest in relation to confessor, etc., and since the enactment of Section 311, Title 15, Code of Alabama 1940, providing that husband and wife may testify either for or against each other in criminal cases, but shall not be compelled to do so, there may be added to this exempted class of witnesses, husband and wife. ‘This testimonial exemption is however a privilege, purely personal to the witness, and is solely a matter between the witness and the court.’ ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 455 So. 2d 85 - Paulson v. State