Ingram v. State

Defendant was charged with having forged the name “Mrs. Dora Davis” to a check on First National Bank of Huntsville and to have indorsed the same in the name of the payee, “Major Spradlin,” and to have uttered the same. The defendant testified that he did not sign or indorse the check offered in evidence and alleged to have been forged. The defendant also offered an instrument in writing admitted or- proved to have been previously signed by him as a basis for comparison by witnesses, or by the jury, court, or officer conducting the proceeding, to prove that the names had not been signed to…