"Witness box" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... prove this strange thing may speak instead of myself. Three witnesses in all, and one in particular. The one in particular, since only truth can issue from the lips of infancy, I shall call first. My Lord, I shall put a child, a little boy, into the witness box that you may hear his ...
— The Tale of Lal - A Fantasy • Raymond Paton
... who had been sent over from Lewes then stepped into the witness box. He testified to the marks of entry of the thieves, and said that the manner in which they had gone to work, and in which the door had been sawn through, and the chest forced open, seemed to show that it was the work of practised hands. ...
— A Final Reckoning - A Tale of Bush Life in Australia • G. A. Henty
... now. I don't know anybody I could get to come forward and swear Fred was in their company that night—there is a difference between fixing up a tale for the police before a man's arrested, and going into the witness box and ...
— The Hampstead Mystery • John R. Watson |
