Dean v. State

Citations

• 78 Miss. 360

Syllabus

<p>1. Criminal Procedure. Witnesses. Impeachment. Cross-examination. Evidence.</p> <p>A defendant should be permitted, on cross-examination, to ask any question the answer to which may tend to show bias, interest or corruption on the part of the witness.</p> <p>2. Same. Impeaching wiPness.' Entire statement. .</p> <p>An impeaching witness should be permitted to state the entire declaration. made to him by the witness sought to be impeached, proper predicate having been laid, rather than a part of it, where all of it has a tendency to show interest, bias or corruption on the part of the declarant, or renders intelligible the part which does so.</p>