The Art of Cross-Examination

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Francis Lewis Wellman. The Art of Cross-Examination

PREFACE

CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY

CHAPTER II. THE MANNER OF CROSS-EXAMINATION

CHAPTER III. THE MATTER OF CROSS-EXAMINATION

CHAPTER IV. CROSS-EXAMINATION OF THE PERJURED WITNESS

CHAPTER V. CROSS-EXAMINATION OF EXPERTS

CHAPTER VI. THE SEQUENCE OF CROSS-EXAMINATION

CHAPTER VII. SILENT CROSS-EXAMINATION

CHAPTER VIII. CROSS-EXAMINATION TO CREDIT, AND ITS ABUSES

CHAPTER IX. GOLDEN RULES FOR THE EXAMINATION OF WITNESSES

CHAPTER X. SOME FAMOUS CROSS-EXAMINERS AND THEIR METHODS

CHAPTER XI. THE CROSS-EXAMINATION OF RICHARD PIGOTT BY SIR CHARLES RUSSELL BEFORE THE PARNELL COMMISSION

CHAPTER XII. THE CROSS-EXAMINATION OF DR. – IN THE CARLYLE W. HARRIS CASE

CHAPTER XIII. THE BELLEVUE HOSPITAL CASE

CHAPTER XIV. THE CROSS-EXAMINATION OF JEREMIAH SMITH BY SIR ALEXANDER COCKBURN IN THE WILLIAM PALMER CASE

CHAPTER XV. THE CROSS-EXAMINATION OF RUSSELL SAGE BY MR. JOSEPH H. CHOATE IN THE LAIDLAW-SAGE CASE

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In offering this book to the legal profession I do not intend to arrogate to myself any superior knowledge upon the subject, excepting in so far as it may have been gleaned from actual experience. Nor have I attempted to treat the subject in any scientific, elaborate, or exhaustive way; but merely to make some suggestions upon the art of cross-examination, which have been gathered as a result of twenty-five years' court practice, during which time I have examined and cross-examined about fifteen thousand witnesses, drawn from all classes of the community.

If what is here written affords anything of instruction to the younger members of my profession, or of interest or entertainment to the public, it will amply justify the time taken from my summer vacation to put in readable form some points from my experience upon this most difficult subject.

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Counsel. "That is to say, one would have to take a microscope to find them?"

Doctor. "That is right."

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