All 12 Uses of
cross-examination
in
The Brothers Karamazov
- We've cross-examined him several times."†
Chpt 9
- I have cross-examined him several times," Nikolay Parfenovitch confirmed warmly.†
Chpt 9
- "He's been severely cross-examined," observed Alyosha thoughtfully; "but every one came to the conclusion it was not he.†
Chpt 11
- At last the counsel for the defense began to cross-examine him, and the first question he asked was about the envelope in which Fyodor Pavlovitch was supposed to have put three thousand roubles for "a certain person."†
Chpt 12
- When, after Rakitin's cross-examination, the President asked the prisoner if he had anything to say, Mitya cried loudly: "Since I've been arrested, he has borrowed money from me!"
Chpt 12cross-examination = the re-questioning of a witness who has already been questioned by the other side in court
- When Fetyukovitch had to cross-examine him, he scarcely tried to refute his evidence, but began asking him about an incident at the first carousal at Mokroe, a month before the arrest, when Timofey and another peasant called Akim had picked up on the floor in the passage a hundred roubles dropped by Mitya when he was drunk, and had given them to Trifon Borissovitch and received a rouble each from him for doing so.†
Chpt 12
- But Fetyukovitch began his cross-examination.
Chpt 12 *cross-examination = the re-questioning of a witness who has already been questioned by the other side in court
- So Alyosha's cross-examination ended.
Chpt 12
- It was then Fetyukovitch began his cross-examination.
Chpt 12
- Fetyukovitch began his cross-examination.
Chpt 12
- Grushenka's cross-examination did not last long and, of course, there could be nothing particularly new in her evidence.
Chpt 12
- The prosecutor and counsel for the defense began cross-examining her, chiefly to ascertain what had induced her to conceal such a document and to give her evidence in quite a different tone and spirit just before.†
Chpt 12
Definition:
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(cross-examination) the re-questioning of a witness who has already been questioned by the other side in court