Show WIVES MAY TESTIFY FOR ACCUSED HUSBANDS WASHINGTON Dec 11 R IP P The supreme court held today that wives of ot persons charged with violation of Federal criminal laws can testify in behalf behal of their husbands at the trial The question was raised in a case brought by John S. S Funk indicted at Rockingham N. N C. C in 1929 and convicted convicted convicted con con- on the charge of conspiracy to violate the national prohibition law Funk a federal prohibition agent was alleged to have agreed to protect Gus Dowdy and Charlie Martin Marlin in the i manufacture and sale of illicit liquor I |