No, I was not asked to give evidence," she answered.
It would have been very unpleasant for his wife to be compelled to give evidence at an inquest.
The only thing that surprises us to-day is that there could ever have been any question about the necessity of allowing parties to give evidenceif it was really desired that they should have justice.
Sydney Smith mentions as one of the injustices to the prisoner his inability to give evidence.
In this way was the other witness removed, who had been brought thither by the Crown to give evidence as to the demolition of Mr. Jones's flood gates.
The results were that Pat Carroll was in Galway jail, committed to take his trial at the next assizes in August for the offence which he had committed; and that Florian had been bound over to give evidence.
Plato has a similar law: 'A child shall be allowed to give evidence only in cases of murder.
In 1649, in the case of Claudio Bolano, a familiar imprisoned for refusing to give evidence, the tribunal of Valencia formed a competencia, pending which he was released under bail to both jurisdictions.
Those who would not talk were threatened that they would be carried to Jaen and made to accuse their neighbors, and, in fact, a number were taken and compelled to give evidence in prison.
Meanwhile it was busily employed, throughout October and November, in making a general inquest and taking testimony from all who would come forward to give evidence.
It was probably in consequence of this discussion that, on July 15th, a royal decree was issued compelling familiars to give evidence in secular courts.
Medical men are often called to give evidence as to dying declarations where there is a charge of homicide, and where the cause of the death of the declarant is the subject of the declaration.
A witness should be paid his fees when he is subpœnaed; but even if he attends he can refuse to give evidence until he is paid, unless he takes the oath before making the objection [49].
You said that your reason for coming here and offering to give evidence to-day was, that you were afraid of young Mr. Bruce taking the fishing into his own hands?
You are prepared to give evidence of this fact, that the price you allow to the seller of hosiery in Shetland is the price you get from the buyer in the south?
He did not refer then to a blue envelope; but because it was thought that the material may have been mentioned by him to the Association's counsel he was recalled to give evidence, this time by counsel for the airline.
It seems that First Officer Rhodes agreed to give evidence on the second occasion in order to remove any false impression that he himself doubted the integrity of Captain Gemmell.
The boy's capacity to give evidence, however, was somewhat doubted by the counsel for the Crown, John Clark, and it did honour to his sense of fairness.
The red cheeks of Cassandra, admired by Lucian, give evidence of several colors within the same outline.
The representations of a sea-horse, a woman with fins, sphinxes, and a man who holds or strangles two lions, give evidence rather of Oriental than of Hellenic prototypes.
Defn: To bear testimony; to give evidence; to testify.
Law) Defn: To give evidence on oath; as, to swear to the truth of a statement; he swore against the prisoner.
Said Lady Sophia simply, "Now, Mr. Farll, shall I have to give evidence or not?
Useless to assert that he was simply a witness subpoenaed to give evidenceat the trial!
You are upon oath to give evidence of facts directly within your own personal knowledge.
I may be asked to give evidence; I may even be called to sit upon the court-martial that will try him.
She came in very white and trembling, accompanied by Miss Armytage, whose admittance was suffered by the court, since she would not be called upon to give evidence.
Camden urged Portland to beg of him to give evidence publicly, and to offer reward to any amount.
In both cases the same stipulation is made that he should not be called upon to give evidence publicly--the same nervous temperament is revealed.
If the 'friend' could be brought over, and could be induced to give evidence, a case could then be established against all the United Irish leaders.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "give evidence" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
