Goolsby v. Goolsby’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. “Cross examination follows examination in chief by the party who calls the witness. It behooved appellant to produce the affiants as witnesses if she wanted the benefit of their testimony, and let them be subject to cross examination. The latter is a most valuable right. `It is the law of evidence that when a witness has been examined in chief, the other party has a right to cross examine him. * * * The power of cross examination has been justly said to be one of the principal, as it certainly is one of the most efficacious, tests which the law has devised for the discovery of truth.' State v. McNinch , 12 S.C. 89 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Simonds v. Simonds