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Witness box   /wˈɪtnəs bɑks/   Listen
Witness box

noun
1.
A box enclosure for a witness when testifying.  Synonym: witness stand.






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"Witness box" Quotes from Famous Books



... sort of woman to break one's heart in the witness box,' he said as he passed out into the deserted street, and Senora Barenna, in the great room with the armour, reflected complacently that the English lord ...
— In Kedar's Tents • Henry Seton Merriman

... night of the murder. It is too late to do anything in the alibi line 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

... question of the knowledge now possessed by the cerebral pathologist, I will put into the witness box Professor Westphal and Dr. Herbert Major, as having enjoyed and utilized large opportunities for making microscopic and macroscopic examinations of the insane, and not being hasty—some think the former too slow—to admit ...
— Chapters in the History of the Insane in the British Isles • Daniel Hack Tuke



Words linked to "Witness box" :   box, courtroom, court



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