He dismissed me.

I--" The judge interposed looking at the cross-examining counsel.
"Do you press your question ?" he asked.

"I do not forbid you to ask it, but I ask you whether the case for the prosecution of the--the prisoner is furthered by your insisting on this question.

We have all heard, the jury and I alike, what the last three or four witnesses have said, and you have allowed that--quite properly, in my opinion--to go unchallenged.

I do not myself see that there is anything to be gained by the prosecution by pressing the question.