Attorney General v. Hitchcock

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Attorney General v. Hitchcock (1847) 154 E.R. 38 establishes the common law "Hitchcock Rule" regarding impeachment of a witness and establishing a test for a collateral matter.^[1]

Attorney General v. Hitchcock
Court	Exchequer Court
Decided	10 June 1847
Citation	(1847) I Exch. 91, 154 E.R. 38
Transcript	Full text of judgment
Keywords
Hitchcock Rule, Collateral Evidence

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Hitchcock Rule

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The Hitchcock Rule (also known as the "Collateral Rule") is a common law rule forbidding the introduction of extrinsic evidence to contradict a witness on a collateral matter.^[4]^[5]^[6] That is, impeachment of a witness as to a collateral fact can only be accomplished by intrinsic methods such as questioning.^[7]

Although this test is not found in the Federal Rules of Evidence explicitly it has been imported from the common law under rules 403 and 611.