People ex rel. Betsching v. Waibel

2. Bastards, § 25*—when restriction of cross-examination of prosecuting witness not error. In a bastardy proceeding, refusal to permit defendant’s counsel to ask the prosecuting witness on cross-examination whether he had not visited her and she had not made certain answers to questions asked of her relative to the time she expected the child to be born and when the first act of intercourse took place, held not error for the reason it prevented defendant from laying a foundation for impeachment, it not being suggested how any answer could have been made that would have opened the door for…