Attorney-General. "Of course! Didn't she refuse to do it—didn't you bring it back?"
Smith. "I brought it back as I had no instructions to leave it."
Attorney-General. "Didn't she say that she understood from her husband that the insurance was for £10,000?"
Mr. Serjeant Shee objected to this question. What passed between the widow and witness could be no evidence against the prisoner.
The Attorney-General said that the question was intended to affect the credit of the witness, and with that view it was most important.
The court ruled that the question could not be put.
Attorney-General. "Do you know that Walter Palmer obtained nothing for making that assignment?"
Smith. "I believe that he ultimately did get something for it."
Attorney-General. "Don't you know that what he got was a bill for £200?"