cross examination

Cross-examination is to ask questions, not to make declarative statements to test the story told on direct examination.

The cardinal rule of cross-examination is that the examiner must not make statements or make speeches.

Proceeding in his cross examination, the counsel asked where the affray happened?

Both of us were sorely put to it under Doria's indignant and suspicious cross-examination.

In fact, he subjected me to a long sort of cross-examination respecting our friend Leonard here.

"I rather think not," said the Knight, who was by no means sorry to turn Mr. Dempsey from cross-examination into mere narrative.

Mr. Baker desired to make no cross-examination, and James's wife was called, and testified in her quaint way to the same effect.