19-14-5.   (Rule 605) Presiding judge disqualified as witness. The judge presiding at the trial may not testify in that trial as a witness. No objection need be made in order to preserve the point.

Source: CCivP 1877, § 501; CL 1887, § 5315; RCCivP 1903, § 540; RC 1919, § 2732; SDC 1939 & Supp 1960, § 36.0106; SDCL, § 19-1-2; Supreme Court Rule 78-2, Rule 605.

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