The Art of Cross-Examination. Francis L. Wellman
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Francis L. Wellman
The Art of Cross-Examination
With the Cross-Examinations of Important Witnesses in Some Celebrated Cases
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4057664148537
Table of Contents
THE MANNER OF CROSS-EXAMINATION
THE MATTER OF CROSS-EXAMINATION
CROSS-EXAMINATION OF THE PERJURED WITNESS
THE SEQUENCE OF CROSS-EXAMINATION
CROSS-EXAMINATION TO CREDIT, AND ITS ABUSES
GOLDEN RULES FOR THE EXAMINATION OF WITNESSES
SOME FAMOUS CROSS-EXAMINERS AND THEIR METHODS
THE CROSS-EXAMINATION OF RICHARD PIGOTT BY SIR CHARLES RUSSELL BEFORE THE PARNELL COMMISSION
THE CROSS-EXAMINATION OF DR. —— IN THE CARLYLE W. HARRIS CASE
THE CROSS-EXAMINATION OF JEREMIAH SMITH BY SIR ALEXANDER COCKBURN IN THE WILLIAM PALMER CASE
THE CROSS-EXAMINATION OF RUSSELL SAGE BY MR. JOSEPH H. CHOATE IN THE LAIDLAW-SAGE CASE
THE CITIZEN'S LIBRARY OF ECONOMICS, POLITICS, AND SOCIOLOGY
AN OUTLINE OF POLITICAL HISTORY, 1492-1871 By GOLDWIN SMITH, D.C.L.
By the Right Hon. JAMES BRYCE, D.C.L. Author of "The Holy Roman Empire", M P. for Aberdeen
DEMOCRACY AND THE ORGANIZATION OF POLITICAL PARTIES
PREFACE
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.
Bar Harbor, Maine,
September 1, 1903.
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