Walker v. Walker

Defendant’s counsel attacks first the ruling of the Trial Court which permitted two officers who investigated the accident to testify that they did not believe the defendant when he told them at the scene shortly after the occurrence that his wife was driving the car. In this jurisdiction the test usually applied to determine the admissibility of opinion evidence is ... to inquire . . . “whether the witness’ knowledge of the matter in question will probably aid the triers in their search for the truth.” Paquette v. Company, 79 N. H. 288, 290. This principle has been reaffirmed many times,…