“You’re certain you could see both of her hands plainly?”
“Yes, sir. That is etched on my memory, so I’ll never forget it.”
“You could see the palms of both of her hands?”
“Yes, sir.”
“And she was wearing gloves?”
“Yes, sir.”
“Which one of her hands could you see the most clearly?”
The witness, feeling that Mason was trying to trap him, grew indignant. “I could see both of them equally well,” he said. “She was standing facing me. She had her hands up like this, as though trying to push the automobile away.”
Mason appeared to have been defeated. He abandoned that line of cross-examination with the bad grace of one who is retreating hastily in order to save himself from rout. “Now then, after you struck this woman, you stopped your car?”
“Yes, sir... Understand, I’d started to stop the car before I hit her.”