“You are sure of that?”—“Yes, sir.”
“Will you show me the place in your report where this is said?“—“I don’t find it.”
“Then your memory is better now than it was immediately after the meeting?”
“It is considerably better now that I have refreshed it.”
“A detective’s memory gets better as the time goes on, does it?”
Mr. Grinnell objected to this kind of cross-examination.
Referring to the charges against Sergt. Patton, Mr. Foster asked: “Were the circumstances stated that the girl had been grossly abused, but his brother officers stood round and swore him out?”
“It may have been.”
“And was it not stated as a general expression that such a man ought to be shot?”
“It may have been.”