· 4/8/1889
Charles R. Monroe & Co. v. Hannan
Citations
- 18 D.C. 197
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- ordering new trial where state asked defendant on cross-examination whether it was true that he bragged to a barmaid about his plans to break into a building in order to steal a safe and then failed to present testimony of barmaid to this effect
- prosecutor should not have been permitted to lay a foundation for impeachment of defendant who had taken stand on his own behalf by inquiring whether he had boasted to a barmaid that he was going to commit a crime where prosecutor did not have such a statement from the barmaid
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Judges: Bradley, Hagner, James
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