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Show The Beecher Trial. Now York, 2S. Counsel for the prosecution maintained that a wife or husband had no right to testify for or against each other, as it destroyed and dfiied the privacy and sanctity ot tne marriage relation. Evarts read from ssewrui jirists in support of hiB , position. He claimed thai were this rule adopted perjury would ensue. General Pryor, in behalf of the defence, de-fence, argued that a criminal might, under the law, testify :or himself; that tiie barrier was removed to Njw York in 1So7, from a party teetifyiag in his own behalf, and by subsequent alteration he was compelled to testiiV. He argued t:iat Mrs- Til ton was not" a party in this action, though she was intert ted. Pending the argument the court adji nrned. |