Supreme Court of New Jersey February 15, 1887 (Disque v. State)

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Beasley, Chief Justice.

The plaintiff in error was indicted for the murder of his wife, and at the trial was examined as a witness in his own behalf, and his counsel has now assigned, as a first error in the proceedings, that the court permitted the prosecutor to interrogate him, on cross-*250examination, “ as to his ill-treatment of his wife prior to the