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Putnam Vs. United States

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  • US Supreme Court
  • May 04, 1896

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  1. Nicholls Vs. Webb US Supreme Court · Jan 01, 1823
  2. Putnam v. United
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  3. States - 162 U.S. 687 (1896) U.S. Supreme Court Putnam v. United
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  4. States, 162 U.S. 687 (1896) Putnam v. United
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  5. the brief of counsel. We Page 162 U. S. 691 notice only the two cases principally relied on, to-wit, McGary v. People
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  6. N.Y. 153, and Sykes v. People
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  7. Ill. 32. Both of these cases are in conflict with Commonwealth v. Jacobs
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  8. the trial court in the case at bar. However, the case now before us is distinguishable from that presented in McGary v. People
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  9. and Sykes v. People
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  10. commonly understood as referring only to the place of business of the corporation. A case precisely in point is Roger v. State
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  11. to be asked, when the counsel conducting the examination is surprised by the statements of the witness. St. Clair v. United
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  12. in order to remove any weakening of memory on his part which may have supervened from lapse of time. In Maxwell v. Wilkinson
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  13. made in the regular course of business, unless contemporaneous with the transaction to which they relate. Nicholls v. Webb
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  14. Insurance Co. v. Weide
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  15. Chaffee v. United
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  16. have been fresh in his memory. The memorandum must have been 'presently committed to writing,' Lord Holt, in Sandwell v. Sandwell
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  17. while the occurrences mentioned in it were recent, and fresh in his recollection,' Lord Ellenborough, in Burrough v. Martin
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  18. Camp. 112, 'written contemporaneously with the transaction,' Chief Justice Tindal, in Steinkeller v. Newton
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  19. or nearly so with the facts deposed to,' Chief Justice Wilde, afterwards Lord Chancellor Truro, in Whitfield v. Aland
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  20. Car. & K. 1015. See also Burton v. Plummer
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  21. Wood Page 162 U. S. 696 v. Cooper
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  22. Morrison v. Chapin
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  23. Spring Garden Ins. Co. v. Evans
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  24. courts have differed somewhat, depending, of course, upon the facts of each particular case. In Wood v. Cooper
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  25. of the time of the happening of certain occurrences, and when the facts were fresh in his memory. So, in State v. Colwell
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  26. had elapsed from the time when the occurrences transpired concerning which the witness gave testimony. In Billingslea v. State
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  27. to a grand jury within a week after the occurrence about which he was being interrogated. In Spring Garden Ins. Co. v. Evans
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  28. as we shall hereafter demonstrate, originally arose from a misconception of the doctrine laid down in Wright v. Beckett
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  29. or Melhuish v. Collier
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  30. that they rest not upon sound reason, but solely upon the supposed exception to which we have adverted. In Wright v. Beckett
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  31. also call other witnesses to establish the fact of the making of such prior inconsistent statements. In Melhuish v. Collier
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  32. The judges, moreover, intimated a doubt as to the correctness of Lord Denman's opinion in Wright v. Beckett
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  33. by the testimony of his own witness, to call other witnesses to prove his contradictory statement, but followed Wright v. Beckett
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  34. used in Melhuish v. Collier
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  35. was intended rather as a qualification on the right to neutralize in case of surprise, which was recognized in Wright v. Beckett
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  36. is found in the fact that the judge before whom that case was first tried subsequently, in 1853, in the case of Regina v. Williams
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  37. but when the witness answered that question, the counsel could not proceed any further. A few years after Melhuish v. Collier
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  38. memoranda. This statute was substantially a legislative recognition of the correctness of the rule laid down in Wright v. Beckett
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  39. witness himself concerning prior inconsistent statements, as well as the proof thereof by other witnesses. Faulkner v. Brine
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  40. Dear v. Knight
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  41. The case of Campbell v. State
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  42. avowed object of the question being to refresh the witness' memory. The ruling was rested on the authority of Wright v. Beckett
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  43. supra, and on the opinions of Greenleaf and Phillipps. But the learned court overlooked the fact that Wright v. Beckett
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  44. and different faculty of refreshing the memory of the witness by contemporaneous writings or memoranda. Hemmingway v. Garth
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  45. Ala. 530, was placed simply upon the authority of the previous case. In Bullard v. Pearsall
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  46. The principal cases in this state in which the subject is referred to are People v. Safford
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  47. Thompson v. Blanchard
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  48. Sanchez v. People
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  49. N.Y. 147, and in England it is very thoroughly discussed in Melhuish Page 162 U. S. 704 v. Collier
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  50. The fact that Melhuish v. Collier
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