THE LAW OF EVIDENCE cт IN CIVIL AND CRIMINAL CASES MICHIGAN By WILLIAM W. POTTER OF THE MICHIGAN BAR CHICAGO CALLAGHAN AND COMPANY PREFACE. The following pages offered to the profession, are an accumulation of twenty-five years of more or less active practice. No attempt has been made to feature fine spun theories of legal logic, but the sole aim has been to bring together in a convenient form, under one cover, the law of evidence, as declared by the statutes of Michigan, and the decisions of the Supreme Court of that state, down to, and including Volume 207, page 204, of the Michigan Reports. The classification adopted is regarded as a standard one. The work must ultimately speak for itself. I trust it will prove a useful hand book to the trial lawyers of Michigan. It is submitted to the consideration of a critical profession with a consciousness of its limitations and imperfections. Hastings, Michigan. WILLIAM W. POTTER. TABLE OF CONTENTS. The Question of the Admissibility of Evidence, How Raised. Distinction in Practice, Between Direct and Cross-Examination. Error in Admitting or Rejecting Evidence Must Have Been Reopening Case for the Introduction of Evidence After the Sec. 13. Introduction of Incompetent Evidence to Prevent Unfair Preju- dice. Sec. 16. Judicial Notice, In General. Sec. 17. Judicial Notice of Matters of Common Knowledge. |