Criminal Psychology; a manual for judges, practitioners, and students by Hans Gustav Adolf Gross
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suppose that practically any witness is skilled in statement of what
he remembers. Even of child training, Fr be drawn out, not probed.'' And this is the more valid in jurisprudence, and the more difficult, since the lawyers have at most only as many hours with the individual as the teacher has years. However, we must aim to draw the witness out, and if it does not work at first, we must nevertheless not despair of succeeding. The chief thing is to determine the witness's level and then meet him on it. We certainly can not succeed, in the short time allowed us, to raise him to ours. ``The object of instruction'' (says Lange[3]) ``is to endow the pupil with more apperceptive capacity, i. e., to [1] Pathological conditions, if at all distinct, are easily recognizable, but there is a very broad and fully occupied border country between pathological and normal conditions. (Cf. O. Gross: Die Affeklage der Ablehnung. Monatschrift f u. Neurologie, 1902, XII, 359.) [2] Fr [3] K. Lange:
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