Collins v. Benson

Defendants' counsel, upon cross-examination of the plaintiff's medical expert witness, sought to impeach his credibility by showing that he had pleaded nolo contendere in answer to a complaint (erroneously called an indictment at the trial) for larceny in the municipal court of Boston. The witness admitted that the articles described in the complaint were found in his garage and that he paid for them, but stated that he did so for the benefit of his employees. He denied that he had had anything to do with such articles himself, or that he had any knowledge of the record of the complaint or of…