 | Hawaii. Office of the Attorney General - Arbitration and award - 1846 - 710 pages
...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 - Equity - 1847 - 710 pages
...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 - Evidence (Law) - 1848 - 756 pages
...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,... | |
 | 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 - Law reports, digests, etc - 1862 - 600 pages
...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,... | |
 | Connecticut. Supreme Court of Errors - Law reports, digests, etc - 1883 - 658 pages
...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 - Law reports, digests, etc - 1854 - 684 pages
...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... | |
 | Iowa. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1858 - 708 pages
...sufficiently alleged in the indictment; 2. That the indictment did not charge two distinct offences. A party has no right to cross,examine any witness,...except as to facts and circumstances connected with tho matters stated in his direct examination. When a question is put to a witness, which is collateral... | |
 | John Pitt Taylor - Evidence (Law) - 1858 - 934 pages
...and might be cross-examined to the whole case.' In America, however, the Supreme Court has determined that a party has no right to cross-examine any witness, except as to circumstances connected with matters stated in his direct examination; and that, if he wishes to examine... | |
 | Simon Greenleaf - Evidence (Law) - 1866 - 756 pages
...2 and 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,... | |
 | Law - 1894 - 922 pages
...Loft (Colo.), 34 Pac. Rep. 568. CROSS-EX AMIS ATION. — A witness cannot be crossexamined except us to facts and circumstances connected with the matters stated in his direct examination. Any party wishing to examine him as to other matters must make him his own witness. Williams v. State... | |
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States to be well established, that a party has no right to cross-examine any witness, except as to facts and circumstances connected with the matters stated in his direct examination... 
