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Case No. 15,411.
    UNITED STATES v. HUDLAND.
    [5 Cranch, C. C. 309.] 
    
    Circuit Court, District of Columbia.
    May Term, 1837.
    ■Witness—Cross-Examination.
    A witness, upon cross-examination, is not to lie questioned as to any fact, tending to disgrace him, which the party would not be permitted to prove aliunde.
    Indictment [against William Hudland] for assault and battery.
    Mr. Semmes, for the defendant,
    in cross-examining John Dixon, a witness for the United States, asked him whether he had been indicted for treason.
   THE COURT

interposed, and said that this court, after argument, had lately decided, in Washington, that a witness should not, in cross-examination, be asked a question as to any fact, tending to disgrace him, which the party would not be permitted to prove aliunde.

Verdict, ‘‘Not guilty.”