Article 136 — Opening of case and calling of witnesses for prosecution.

(I) After the plea of the accused has been entered, the public prosecutor shall open his case explaining shortly the charges he proposes to prove and the nature of the evidence he will lead. He shall do so in an impartial and objective manner. (2) The public prosecutor shall then call his witnesses and experts, if any. The witnesses and experts shall be sworn or affinned before they give their testimony. (3) They shall be examined in chief by the public prosecutor, cross-examined by the accused or his advocate and may be re-examined by the public proseCutor. - 52 CRIMINAL PROCEDURE CODE (4) The court may at any time put to a witness any question which appears necessary for the just decision of the case.