 ... 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. If he wishes to examine him to other matters, he must do so by making the witness his own, and calling...  Atlantic Reporter - Page 2611919Full view - About this book
 | Law - 1843 - 530 pages
...circumstances connected with the matters stated in 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 progress of the cause. A party cannot, by his own omission to... | |
 | Arkansas. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1854 - 780 pages
...in the direct examination of a witness; and that if the cross-examining party wishes to examine the witness as to other matters, he must do so by making the witness his own, and calling him as such in the subsequent progress of the case (1 Greenl. Ev. part 3, ch. 3, sec. 445,... | |
 | Hawaii. Office of the Attorney General - Arbitration and award - 1846 - 710 pages
...connected 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, and calling him, as such, in the subsequent progress of the cause." And he cites, in support of his text,... | |
 | 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
...circumstances connected 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, and calling him as such in the subsequent progress of the cause" (1 Greenl. Ev. § 445). Until that rule... | |
 | Connecticut. Supreme Court of Errors - Law reports, digests, etc - 1883 - 658 pages
...circumstances connected with matters stated in his direct examination, and if he wishes to examine him as to other matters he must do so by making the witness his own and calling him as such at the proper time. A question put to a witness must not assume a fact which does... | |
 | Patent laws and legislation - 1854 - 868 pages
...circumstances connected with the matters stated in 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 progress of the cause. The question then is presented, whether... | |
 | 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 - Law reports, digests, etc - 1856 - 614 pages
...circumstances connected with the matters stated in 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 progress of the cause." Here, instead of calling him subsequently,... | |
 | Alexander Ralston Tiffany - Justices of the peace - 1859 - 656 pages
...circumstances connected with the matters stated in his direct examination. If he wish to examine him as to other matters, he must do so by making the witness his own, and calling him as such, in the subsequent progress of the cause." — 14 Peters, 461. It is a well settled... | |
 | Simon Greenleaf - Evidence (Law) - 1866 - 756 pages
...connected 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, and calling him, as such, in the subsequent progress of the cause.3 § 446. The power of cross-examination... | |
 | Utah. Supreme Court, Albert Hagan, John Augustine Marshall, John Maxcy Zane, James A. Williams, Joseph M. Tanner, George L. Nye, John Walcott Thompson, August B. Edler, Alonzo Blair Irvine, Harmel L. Pratt, William S. Dalton, H. Arnold Rich - Law reports, digests, etc - 1910 - 688 pages
...and circumstances connected with the matters stated in the direct examination of the witness. If a party wishes to examine a witness as to other matters he must do so by making the witness his own. . . . Under the rule that generally provails, the fact that other witnesses have testified to certain... | |
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