Case Name: UNITED STATES v. HUDLAND
Court: United States Circuit Court of the District of Columbia
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1837-05
Citations: 26 F. Cas. 406
Docket Number: 
Parties: UNITED STATES v. HUDLAND.
Judges: 
Reporter: Federal Cases
Volume: 26
Pages: 406–406

Head Matter:
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.

Opinion:
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."