The following excerpt is from Bridges v. United States, 199 F.2d 811 (9th Cir. 1952):
Counsel for defendant challenged the court's right to limit the scope of the cross-examination in this instance. The court in reply read from a prepared memorandum on the point of law. And while reading the memorandum in the presence of the jury, the court quoted from Morton v. United States, 7 Cir., 1932, 60 F.2d 696, 699, as follows at page 3609 of the Record on Appeal:
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