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Idaho Code § 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.

Current official text: Idaho Statutes (Idaho Legislature). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Idaho statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.