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I know how to conduct a case.

Mr. Taylor: Is he permitted to cross-examine his own witness?

Court: It is hardly a cross-examination.

Mr. Taylor: When he receives an answer to to his question, and then the witness proceeds to add something - ?

Court: That you will understand goes to show what particular time the witness is thinking of. Mr. Powell refers his mind to that incident, and then says after that did anyone come in?

Mr. Taylor: He said Did anybody else come into the room?

Court: That is after the explanation given by the witness.

Mr. Taylor: It is quite pertinent to the question but he says someone goes out and gets something for him. - my learned friend is not entitled to turn around and say did anyone else go into the room, on account of the negative: it is cross examination.

Q (continuing) He has told us that he was preparing some opium for Mann Quann, did Mann Quann smoke the opium?

Mr. Taylor: I object to that.

Q What did Mann Quann do after he got the opium?

Mr. Taylor: That is also a leading question. No one knows better than my learned friend that he is trying to insert something else -

Mr. Powell: Why don't you say for pecuniary purposes?

BC Archives GR-0419 Box 100 File 1904/10 / BRITISH COLUMBIA. ATTORNEY GENERAL. / Attorney General documents.