Edwards v. State

1. "Where witnesses have been separated at request of counsel, a person not sworn and sequestered, but who has remained in the court-room and heard the testimony in the case, is still competent to testify as a witness in 'the cause. If he has been purposely kept in the court-room in disobedience of the orders of the court, with knowledge of the fact that he was to be used as a witness, the fact that he has heard the testimony goes to his credit, and the court may punish either the party who caused him to remain in the court-room or the witness himself, or both, according to the circumstances,…