Civil witness testimony from prior criminal proceedings is inadmissible if the witness exercised the right to refuse testimony.

The court ruled that testimony given by the defendant as a witness in prior criminal proceedings cannot serve as evidence in the civil suit. The defendant argued that their previous statements should be admissible, while the opposing party sought to use them to prove facts. The court decided the evidence was inadmissible because the witness had previously exercised the right to refuse to testify in the criminal process.