Adams v. State

1. While the right to a thorough and sifting cross-examination should not be abridged, yet where a person is on trial and a witness for the State uses a private memorandum book to refresh his memory, no error harmful to the accused is pointed out in the ground of the motion for a new. trial which alleges that the court “refused to allow counsel for defendant to see it (the book) or cross-examine the witness about the paper.” See, in this connection, Park’s Penal Code, § 1046; Schall v. Eisner, 58 Ga. 191 (2) ; Smith v. State, 17 Ga. App. 298 (1) (86 S. E. 660).

2. “A ground of a motion for a…