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evidence, is an in terrogation put to a witness, requesting him to declare the truth of certain facts as far as he knows them. Questions are either general or leading. By a:general question is meant such an one as requires the witness to state all he knows without any suggestion being made to him, as, who gave the blow ? A leading question is one which leads the mind of the witness to the answer or suggests it to him, as, did A B give the blow? The Romans called a question, by which the fact or supposed fact which the interrogator expected, or which to find asserted, in and by the answer was made to the proposed respondent, a suggestzve interrogation, as, ts not your name A B? Vide Leading Question.