 A party producing a witness shall not be allowed to impeach his credit by general evidence of bad character, but he may, in case the witness shall in the opinion of the judge prove adverse, contradict him by other evidence, or, by leave of the judge,...  Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Judicature of ... - Page 372by 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, Charles Frederick Remy, John Lewis Griffiths, Sidney Romelee Moon - 1862Full view - About this book
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1856 - 532 pages
...be enacted or provided against ; ; -".IK, convicted of wilful and corrupt perjury. 25. [Sect. 22.] A party producing a witness shall not be allowed to impeach his credit by general evidence of bad character, but he may, in case the witness shall in the opinion of the Judge... | |
 | Kentucky - Session laws - 1851 - 544 pages
...is subject to the same rules as the direct examination. § 558. The party producing a witness is not allowed to impeach his credit by evidence of bad character, unless it is a case in which it was indispensable that the party should produce him ; but he may contradict him... | |
 | Kentucky - Law - 1851 - 548 pages
...is subject to the same rulea as the direct examination. § 558. The party producing a witness is not allowed to impeach his credit by evidence of bad character, unless it U a case in which it was indispensable that the party should produce him ; but he may contradict him... | |
 | Law - 1854 - 836 pages
...kingdom are or may be enacted or provided against persons convicted of wilful and corrupt perjury. 23. A party producing a witness shall not be allowed to impeach his credit by general evidence of bad character, but he may, in case the witness shall in the opinion of the judge... | |
 | Robert Malcolm Kerr - Procedure (Law) - 1854 - 270 pages
...this new law, combined with the old practice, contradict or impeach the credit of his witness. " A party producing a witness shall not be allowed to impeach his credit by general evidence of bad cha- Umefara racter." This provision, not interfering with the previous law,... | |
 | Law - 1854 - 532 pages
...kingdom are or may be enacted or provided against persons convicted of wilful or corrupt perjury ; s. 19A party producing a witness shall not be allowed to impeach his credit by general evidence of bad character, but he may, in case the witness shall prove adverse, contradict... | |
 | Law - 1855 - 552 pages
...kingdom are or may be enacted or provided against persons convicted of wilful and corrupt perjury. 22. A party producing a witness shall not be allowed to impeach his credit by general evidence of bad character, bat he may, in case the witness shall, in the opinion of the judge,... | |
 | Edmund Powell - Evidence - 1856 - 456 pages
...convicted of wilful and corrupt perjury. XXII. How far a party may discredit his own ivitness.~] — A party producing a witness shall not be allowed to impeach his credit by general evidence of bad character, but he may, in case the witness shall in the opinion of the judge... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons - Great Britain - 1856 - 672 pages
...wilful and corrupt Perjury:" And 10 by the Twenty-second Section thereof it is enacted, that " a " Party producing a Witness shall not be allowed to impeach " his Credit by general Evidence of bad Character, but he " may, in case the Witness shall, in the Opinion of the Judge,... | |
 | Great Britain - 1856 - 850 pages
...Kingdom are or may be enacted or provided against Persons convicted of wilful and corrupt Perjury. XXV. A Party producing a Witness shall not be allowed to impeach his Credit by general Evidence of bad Character, but he niiiy, in case the Witness shall in the Opinion of the Judge... | |
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