1933_public laws_229_6
CHAPTER 228 AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER SIX OF THE CONSOLI- DATED STATUTES OF NORTH CAROLINA ON BAS- TARDY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
No mother of an illegitimate child shall be excused, on the ground that it may tend to incriminate her or subject her to a penalty or a forfeiture, from attending and testifying, in obedience to a subpoena of any court, in any suit or proceeding based upon or growing out of the provisions of this act, but no such mother shall be prosecuted or subjected to any penalty or forfeiture for or on account of any transaction, matter, or thing as to which, in obedience to a subpoena and under oath, she may so testify, nor shall she be forced or compelled to testify against the accused party against her will.