The judgment of the Supreme Court is affirmed, for the reasons stated in the opinion of Mr. Justice Swayze. One of the questions in the case was the right of counsel to cross-
This disposes of the ease before us upon this point, so that any discussion of the discretionary rule that obtains in some jurisdictions when the criminal conduct sought to he inquired into, amounts to a mode of life that has a direct bearing upon the question of veracity would lead to nothing but dicta upon a matter that is of too much importance to be hampered by such obiter comments.
On the question of the jurisdiction of the Sessions to try the indictment, which it had received under the statute, we think that, regardless of the considerations dealt with in the opinion of the court below, the statute confers such jurisdiction.
For affirmance—The Chancellor, Garrison, Trenchard, Parker, Minturn, Kaltsch, Black, White, Heppenhetmer, Taylor, Gardner, JJ. 11.
For reversal—Kone.