O'Brien v. State

In this case, after all of the evidence had been introduced, the statement of the defendant had been made and the counsel for the plaintiff in error had argued for about six minutes, it was suggested to the court by the solicitor-general that he wished to call in rebuttal another witness, whom he had overlooked calling as a witness; whereupon the court asked counsel for the plaintiff in error to cease his argument to the jury at that point and allow the solicitor-general to introduce another witness. At that point the solicitor-general was permitted to introduce a witness for the State and…