Section 3
SEC. 3. Section thirty-one of said General Orders, Numbered Fifty-eight, is likewise amended, to read as follows: "SEC. 31. The plea of not guilty having been entered, the trial must proceed in the following order: "1. The Fiscal, on behalf of the people of the Philippine Islands, must offer evidence in support of the charges. "2. The defendant or his counsel may,offer evidence in support of the defense. "3. The parties may then respectively offer rebutting testimony, but rebutting testimony only, unless the court, in furtherance of justice, permit them to offer new and additional evidence bearing upon the main issue in question. "4. When the introduction of testimony shall have been concluded, unless the case is submitted to the court without argument, the Fiscal must open the argument, the counsel for the defense must follow, and the Fiscal may conclude the same. The arguments by either counsel may be oral or written, or partly oral and partly written, but only the written arguments, or such portions of the same as may be in writing, shall be preserved in the records of the case."