 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.  Michigan Reports: Cases Decided in the Supreme Court of Michigan - Page 400by Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, William Jennison, Elijah W. Meddaugh, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell - 1862Full view - About this book
 | Law - 1843 - 530 pages
...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...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... | |
 | 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,...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... | |
 | 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,...examination ; and that, if he wishes to examine him to other matters, he must do so hy making the witness his own, and calling him, as such, in the subsequent... | |
 | Henry Roscoe - Evidence, Criminal - 1852 - 988 pages
...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,...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 bis own ; and calling... | |
 | Patent laws and legislation - 1854 - 868 pages
...principle, now well established, although sometimes lost sight of in our loose practice at trials, that a party has no right to cross-examine any witness...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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
...principle is now well established, although sometimes lost sight of in our loose practice at trials, that a party has no right to cross-examine any witness...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... | |
 | 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... | |
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