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Confrontation

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

In criminal law. the act of setting a witness face to face with the prisoner, in order that the latter may make any objection he has to the witness or that the witness may identify the accused.

Sinte v. Behrman, 114 N. C. 797, 19 S. E. 220, 25 L. R/ A. 449; Howser v. Com., 51 Pa. 332; State v. Mannion, 19 Utah, 505, 57 Pac. 542, 45 In R. A. 638, 75 Am. St. Rep. 753; People v. Elliott, 172 N. Y. 146, 64 N. E. 837, 60 In R. A. 318.