Show badgering tho the lawyer witnesses are often badgered badgere d b by y lawyers who cross examine them into sabiny cinc precisely ely what they do not anten intend to say tho the object of cross examination if is of course to sift 81 ft what has las been rectified to od on the direct examination and to separate the false from the true but the skilful lawyer who ha has a bud case frequently uses his hi privilege of questin questioning wing to confute confuse the witz witness ea and thui thus to destroy tho the effect of the truth which tho the witness has toldon told on the other side but some times tho the witness is already in verbal fencing As a in the icene scene in the following sketch where ere dodou do you live asked the attorney at home homel but wheres your home in the neighborhood 0 whar whir I 1 live the judge turned away to c conceal i ceala a emile smile and the attorney egiy ing the squatter ft a look iok of extreme severity sever said do you know where you are air sir yea yes air ir im here yo you wont be here much longer unless you answer my questions question im an awerin swerin your questions qu catin squire go on with your question ing where were you when mr air jan jaa ten the defendant cut timber from froin government land when did he do the cuttin cutt ln A abat I 1 wanted to find out I 1 think it was vas sometime in october wal sometime in october I 1 was in one place hu sam sometimes betimes in an other did you ever see him cuttin cutting any ny of the government timber believe I 1 did when du durin rin the war when he lo was wall in the army none of your foolishness abolish nesa new now you como come along the road one e day in october and talk to th the said defendant while he was wits chop ling ping down a tree wo no gir air remember that you are under oath so you BOO see him while ie was chopping down the tree eay ohp t hafl 1 f al I 1 dj w 0 o nini choppin the tree did you stop and talk to him yea yes sir air thought you said you to p and talk to hi him in aay it you did pay it what did lid you wjk art frt said I 1 talk to him while ho he was avas choppin forshen fur for when I 1 bame up ap nn spoke he lie quit choppin ef anything else you wanter winter know ask away I 1 0 |