Section 43-2-232
Hearing.
At the hearing, the probate court shall take such legal evidence as shall then be offered for the purpose of ascertaining whether the presumption of death is established, and no person shall be disqualified to testify by reason of his or her relationship as husband or wife to the supposed decedent or of his or her interest in the estate of the person supposed to be dead.
(Acts 1939, No. 46, p. 53; Code 1940, T. 61, §158.)