[3]
The task of dealing with the evidence of witnesses
present in court is, however, one of great difficulty,
and consequently whether defending or impugning
them the orator employs a twofold armoury in the
shape of a set speech and examination.1 In set
speeches it is usual to begin with observations either
on behalf of or against witnesses in general.
1 Interrogatio includes both the examination in chief and cross-examination.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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