People v. Dye

Citations

• 75 Cal. 108
• 16 P. 537
• 1888 Cal. LEXIS 487

Syllabus

<p>Impeachment of Wetness. —A witness cannot be impeached by contradicting him upon collateral matters.</p> <p>Ibbelevant Evidence. — Irrelevant evidence on one side does not justify irrelevant evidence on the other.</p> <p>Id. — Upon the trial of a party accused of murder, somewhat remotely growing out of the improper relations of the prisoner’s wife with another man, which fact appeared in the prisoner’s evidence, and in the cross-examination, it is error to allow the prosecution in rebuttal to prove that some time after the killing the prisoner had sent his wife to demand money from the man with whom she had had the improper relations.</p> <p>Pboof of Agency t-Deolabation of Agent.—The mere declaration of a party is not proof that he is the agent of another.</p>