Boutelle v. White

1. The trial judge has no right to exclude from the courtroom, during the taking of testimony, a party to the case on trial. Saint Paul Fire &c. Ins. Co. v. Brunswick Grocery Co., 113 Ga. 786 (39 S. E. 483); Georgia Railroad &c. Co. v. Tice, 124 Ga. 459 (3) (52 S. E. 916, 4 Ann. Cas. 200); Knox v. Harrell, 26 Ga. App. 772 (107 S. E. 594). It is a matter entirely within the discretion of the trial judge as to whether lie will require that the testimony of a party to the case be taken before the talcing of the testimony of the party’s witnesses. Tift v. Jones, 52 Ga. 538 (4). If the judge could…