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" The party producing a witness is not allowed to impeach his credit by evidence of bad character, but he may contradict him by other evidence, and may also show that he has made at other times statements inconsistent with his present testimony, as provided... "
Notes of the Commissioners to the Code of Evidence Reported to the ... - Page 51
by New York (State) - 1889 - 53 pages
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Reports of Civil and Criminal Cases Decided by the ..., Volume 6; Volume 154

Kentucky. Court of Appeals, James Hughes, Achilles Sneed, Martin D. Hardin, George Minos Bibb, Alexander Keith Marshall, William Littell - 1913 - 1002 pages
...Witness answered in the negative. Section 596 of the Civil Code provides that the party producing the witness is not allowed to impeach his credit by evidence of bad character, unless it was indispensable that the party should produce him ; but he may contradict him...
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The Code of Civil Procedure of the State of New York: Reported ..., Volume 2

New York (State). - 1850 - 920 pages
...other matters, such examination is to be subject to the same rules as a direct examination. § 1845. The party producing a witness, is not allowed to impeach his credit by evidence of bad character, but he may contradict him by other evidence, and may also show that he has made at other...
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Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, Passed, Volume 1

Kentucky - 1851 - 548 pages
...witness on new matters, such examination is subject to the same rulea as the direct examination. § 558. The party producing a witness is not allowed to impeach his credit by evidence of bad character, unless it U a case in which it was indispensable that the party should produce him ; but...
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Acts Passed at the ... Session of the General Assembly for the Commonwealth ...

Kentucky - 1851 - 544 pages
...witness on new matters, such examination is subject to the same rules as the direct examination. § 558. The party producing a witness is not allowed to impeach his credit by evidence of bad character, unless it is a case in which it was indispensable that the party should produce him ; but...
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A Treatise on the Law of Evidence, as Administered in England and ..., Volume 2

John Pitt Taylor - 1858 - 934 pages
...enactment is borrowed in great part from §§ 1845, 1848, of the New York Civ. Code, under which sections, "The party producing a witness is not allowed to impeach his credit by evidence of bad character, but he may contradict him by other evidence, and may also show that he has made at other...
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Outlines of Military Law and the Laws of Evidence

Henry Bowles Franklyn - 1874 - 166 pages
...only relevant questions to the issue are allowed to be asked. Discrediting of one's own Witnesses. A party producing a witness is not allowed to impeach his credit by general evidence of bad character ; but if the witness, in the opinion of the court, prove hostile...
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The Code of Civil Procedure of the State of California: Adopted March 11th ...

California - 1880 - 864 pages
...Cal.!«); stopping further testimony, sec. 21)44: stopping one's own witness, 36 Cal. 223. g 2049. The party producing a witness is not allowed to impeach his credit by evidence of bad character, but he шау contradict him by other evidence, and may also show that ho has made at other...
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The Code of Civil Procedure of the State of California: Adopted March 11 ...

California, Nathan Newmark - 1880 - 786 pages
...Cal. !«>; stopping further testimony, sec. 2044: stopping one's own witness, 30 Cal. 223. § 2049. The party producing a witness is not allowed to impeach his credit by evidence of bad character, but he may contradict him by other evidence, and may also show that he has made at other...
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Criminal Law, Pleading and Practice in the Courts of the State of California ...

California - 1881 - 820 pages
...out his case. People v. Jacob*, 49 Cal. 384. But see CCP , sec. 2049, pout. 33. Impeachment of. — The party producing a witness is not allowed to impeach his credit by evidence of bad character; but he may contradict him by other evidence, and may also show that he has made at other...
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Principles of the Criminal Law: A Concise Exposition of the Nature of Crime ...

Seymour Frederick Harris, Frederic Philip Tomlinson - 1881 - 678 pages
...questions may not be put in examination-in-chief. But it is provided by statute (b) that although a party producing a witness is not allowed to impeach his credit by general evidence of bad charac(«) K. v. Wright, R. & R. 45& (a) vp 4 IB. ter, he may, in case the...
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