Case Name: The State against Fisler
Court: New Jersey Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: New Jersey
Decision Date: 1796-04
Citations: 6 N.J.L. 371
Docket Number: 
Parties: The State against Fisler.
Judges: 
Reporter: New Jersey Law Reports
Volume: 6
Pages: 371–371

Head Matter:
The State against Fisler.
The answer to the interrogations, in case of an attachment for a contempt, must ho delivered ore tenus.
Fisler in this case, being called upon to answer interrogatories upon an attachment for contempt, a question arose whether he should make his answers ore tenus or in writing.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
The answers must be made ore tenus.
The defendant being then called up and sworn, the interrogatories were severally proposed to him, and he answered them from a printed paper, which he held in his hand, containing answers to each of the interrogatories; after-wards he signed the printed answers, and they were annexed to the interrogatory.
The counsel had the, answers printed, because the defendant was incapable of reading manuscript, ut audivi.