Uncorroborated confessions.

- Confession of the respondent as to acts of adultery since the respondent's marriage, uncorroborated by other circumstances, will not authorize the granting of a divorce. Head v. Head, 2 Ga. 191 (1847); Woolfolk v. Woolfolk, 53 Ga. 661 (1875).

Total divorce will not be granted on evidence consisting exclusively in confessions of the defendant. Buckholts v. Buckholts, 24 Ga. 238 (1858).

Incriminating admission made by spouse in third person's presence.

- In a suit for divorce on the ground of adultery, an incriminating admission made by one spouse to the other in the known presence of a third person is not confidential or privileged, and the third person in whose presence the admission was made may testify to such admission on the trial of a divorce case between the parties. Cocroft v. Cocroft, 158 Ga. 714, 124 S.E. 346 (1924).

Cited in Collins v. Collins, 229 Ga. 222, 190 S.E.2d 539 (1972); McCoy v. McCoy, 236 Ga. 633, 225 S.E.2d 682 (1976).

Am. Jur. 2d.

- 24 Am. Jur. 2d, Divorce and Separation, §§ 311, 321, 341 et seq.

C.J.S.

- 27A C.J.S., Divorce, § 244 et seq.

ALR.

- Birth of child or miscarriage before or after lapse of normal period of gestation since access of husband as evidence of adultery, 21 A.L.R. 1457.

Necessity of corroboration of admission or confession of ground of divorce or nullity, 40 A.L.R. 630.

Discretion as to denial of divorce or separation where statutory grounds are established, 74 A.L.R. 271.

Association or conduct of spouse with persons of opposite sex as cruelty or abusive treatment justifying divorce or separation, 157 A.L.R. 631.

Admissibility in divorce action for adultery of wife's statement that husband was not father of her child, 4 A.L.R.2d 567.

Divorce: necessity and sufficiency of corroboration of plaintiff's testimony concerning ground for divorce, 15 A.L.R.2d 170.