Gilbert v. State

Citations

• 58 Fla. 50

Syllabus

<p>1. Questions on cross-examination of a witness having no possibility of relevancy to the examination in chief may be excluded, even though they may tend to contradict him upon new and irrelevant matters brought out upon the cross-examination.</p> <p>2. Evidence on a trial for murd'er as to the merits of a controversy between the defendant and the Railroad Company, whose employee was killed, should not be received.</p> <p>3. The sufficiency of the evidence will not be considered, when the bill of exceptions does not contain a motion for a new trial.</p>