| 1843 - 530 էջ
...evidence for any other purpose not then suggested to the court. Ib. 10. (Cross examination.) A party has a right to cross-examine any witness, except as to facts...his direct examination. If he wishes to examine him on other matters, he must do so by making the witness his own ; and calling him as such, in the subsequent... | |
| Hawaii. Office of the Attorney General - 1846 - 710 էջ
...says: " The rule is now considered by the Supreme Court of the United States to be well established, that a party has no right to cross-examine any witness,...with the matters stated in his direct examination; and that, if he wishes to examine him to other matters, he must do so by making the witness his own,... | |
| Georgia. Supreme Court - 1847 - 710 էջ
...was better than nothing." The rule as to what cross-questions may be put is this, to wit: a party bas no right to cross-examine any witness, except as to...with the matters stated in his direct examination. — 14 Peters1 Rep. 448-461. It is true that a party may call a witness, and if he does not examine... | |
| John Pitt Taylor - 1848 - 756 էջ
...Brydges, 2 Stark. R. 314, per Abbott, J. ; R. r. Murphy, 1 Ann. Mac. & Og. 206, per Pennefather, CJ Court, that a party has no right to cross-examine any witness,...with the matters stated in his direct examination ; and that, if he wishes to examine him to other matters, he must do so hy making the witness his own,... | |
| Henry Roscoe - 1852 - 988 էջ
...answer operate in favour of the party putting the question. F»rmers' Bank v. Strohicker, 9 Watts, 183. A party has no right to cross-examine any witness,...his direct examination. If he wishes to examine him on other matters, he must do so by making the witness bis own ; and calling him as such, in the subsequent... | |
| Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - 1862 - 600 էջ
...People v. Horton, 4 Mich. 67, 71, 81, 83, and is a misapplication of the rule there laid down, namely: "That a party has no right to cross-examine any witness...with the matters stated in his direct examination; and that if he wishes to examine him as to other matters, he must do so by making the witness his own,... | |
| 1854 - 868 էջ
...First, as mere hearsay ; 2. And, secondly, upon the broader principle, now well established, although sometimes lost sight of in our loose practice at trials,...his direct examination. If he wishes to examine him to other matters, he must do so by making the witness his own, and calling him, as such, in the subsequent... | |
| Connecticut. Supreme Court of Errors - 1883 - 658 էջ
...445,) that the rule is now considered by the Supreme Court of the United States to be well established, that a party has no right to cross-examine any witness...except as to facts and circumstances connected with matters stated in his direct examination, and that if he wishes to examine him as to other matters... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - 1854 - 684 էջ
...the pertinencv or relevancy of the evidence for any other purpose not then suggested to the Court. A party has no right to cross-examine any witness, except as to facts and circumstance! connected with the matters stated in his direct examination. If he wishes to examine... | |
| Indiana. Supreme Court, Horace E. Carter, Albert Gallatin Porter, Gordon Tanner, Benjamin Harrison, Michael Crawford Kerr, James Buckley Black, Augustus Newton Martin, Francis Marion Dice, John Worth Kern, John Lewis Griffiths, Sidney Romelee Moon, Charles Frederick Remy - 1856 - 614 էջ
...Stimpson, 14 Peters 448, GAFF. says Story, justice, — " The principle is now well established, although sometimes lost sight of in our loose practice at trials,...his direct examination. If he wishes to examine him to other matters, he must do so by making the witness his own, and calling him, as such, in the subsequent... | |
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