All 6 Uses of
cross-examination
in
To Kill a Mockingbird
- Jem was not one to dwell on past defeats: it seemed the only message he got from Atticus was insight into the art of cross examination.†
p. 68..7
- Never, never, never, on cross-examination ask a witness a question you don't already know the answer to, was a tenet I absorbed with my baby-food.
p. 237..1 *cross-examination = re-questioning a witness who has already been questionied by the other side in court
- This was as much as I heard of Mr. Gilmer's cross-examination, because Jem made me take Dill out.
p. 265..4cross-examination = the re-questioning of a witness who has already been questioned by the other side in court
- Well, Mr. Finch didn't act that way to Mayella and old man Ewell when he cross-examined them.
p. 266..3cross-examined = re-questioned a witness who had already been questioned by the other side in court
- Which reminded me that we were missing nearly all of Mr. Gilmer's cross-examination.
p. 269..6cross-examination = the re-questioning of a witness who has already been questioned by the other side in court
- It has relied instead upon the testimony of two witnesses whose evidence has not only been called into serious question on cross-examination, but has been flatly contradicted by the defendant.
p. 271..7
Definition:
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(cross-examination) the re-questioning of a witness who has already been questioned by the other side in court