All 8 Uses of
testimony
in
In Cold Blood
- Someone whose testimony associates you and Hickock with this case.†
Chpt 3 *testimony = something that serves as evidence -- especially a statement at a trial or hearing
- The point of Rohleder's testimony was to establish the fact of his having made these pictures, which the prosecution proposed to put into evidence.†
Chpt 4
- Wells' testimony, perfected by pre-trial rehearsal, was as tidy as his appearance.†
Chpt 4
- There's been no testimony about immunity to anybody.†
Chpt 4
- I've got to sound off once in a while")' The prosecution's most damaging witness proved to be Alvin Dewey; his testimony, the first public rendering of the events detailed in Perry Smith's confession, earned large headlines (UNVEIL MUTE MURDER HORROR-COLD, CHILLING FACTS TOLD), and shocked his listeners-none more so than Richard Hickock, who came to a startled and chagrined attention when, in the course of Dewey's commentary, the agent said, "There is one incident Smith related to me that I haven't as yet mentioned.†
Chpt 4
- "Heretofore, Hickock had not known that his partner had informed police of the proposed assault; nor was he aware that, in a friendlier spirit, Perry had altered his original story to claim that he alone had shot the four victims-a fact revealed by Dewey as he neared the end of his testimony: "Perry Smith told me he wished to change two things in the statement he had given us.†
Chpt 4
- Aside from a formal plea to the jury, which would not take place until the morrow, the psychiatrist's testimony terminated Hickock's planned defense.†
Chpt 4
- Apparently the Reverend Dameron was determined young Andrews should answer not only to the Almighty, but also to more temporal powers, for it was his testimony, added to the defendant's confession, that settled matters.†
Chpt 4