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Definition of Character witness
1. Noun. A witness who testifies under oath as to the good reputation of another person in the community where that person lives.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Character Witness
Literary usage of Character witness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1911)
"[6] It Is permissible to test the character witness by Inquiring as to his sources
of information (State v. Perkins, 66 NC 126), and he may be asked if ..."
2. California Jurisprudence: A Complete Statement of the Law and Practice of by William Mark McKinney (1922)
"A witness who did not live in the community where the defendant lived or who does
not know his reputation there, is not qualified as a character witness.6 A ..."
3. The Encyclopædia of Pleading and Practice: Under the Codes and Practice Acts by William Mark McKinney, Thomas Johnson Michie (1897)
"character witness.—It is idle and useless to ask a character witness if he would
believe the person in ..."
4. The Michigan Digest Annotated: Embodying All Reported Decisions from the by Albert Poole Jacobs, Henry Allen Chaney, George Foster Longsdorf, Callaghan and Company (1920)
"It is proper cross-examination of a character witness to ask If he has not (3 Mich.
... It is improper for a character witness to be cross-examined by the ..."
5. Cobbett's Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High ...by William Cobbett, David Jardine by William Cobbett, David Jardine (1820)
"Can you undertake to say, what is his general character. Witness.—But all things
I hear I am not to believe. Mr. Baron Daly.—You are called to give an ..."
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