People v. Horton
Michigan Supreme Court
Case made, and bill of exceptions from Calhonn Circuit Court. The respondent was indicted jointly with one Increase A.Pendleton and one John X. Byers, at the November term of tbe Calhoun Circuit for tbe year 1855, for tbe murder of John A. Wiley. He was tried separately upon the plea of not gnilty, before the Hon. Abner Pratt, Circuit Judge, at tbe November term, 1855, and was found by the jury guilty of murder in tbe first degree.
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Case made, and bill of exceptions from Calhonn Circuit Court. The respondent was indicted jointly with one Increase A.Pendleton and one John X. Byers, at the November term of tbe Calhoun Circuit for tbe year 1855, for tbe murder of John A. Wiley. He was tried separately upon the plea of not gnilty, before the Hon. Abner Pratt, Circuit Judge, at tbe November term, 1855, and was found by the jury guilty of murder in tbe first degree. Exceptions were taken to tbe rulings of tbe Court made during the progress of the trial, and to certain portions of the charge of the Court to the jury. The bill…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Bacon, J.
The first exception taken by the respondent on the trial, was to the ruling of the Judge, in not allowing him to interrogate the witness William IT. Pendleton, on his cross-*81examination, as to matters pertaining to the defence, which had not been inquired after on the examination in chief.
The rule as to the cross-examination of witnesses is not uniform. In some States of the Union it is held that when a witness is called and examined in chief, the opposite party may not only cross-examine as to the matters touching which he has already testified, but that he may examine…
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