People v. Copeland

Defendant appeals from a judgment entered on a jury verdict finding him guilty on seven counts of forging a prescription for a narcotic (Health & Saf. Code, § 11715), as charged in two informations consolidated for trial. On appeal it is argued that the prosecution introduced irrelevant evidence of a highly prejudicial nature, and that the defendant’s rights under section 1025 of the Penal Code had also been violated.

The evidence presented against the defendant is as follows: Five doctors testified that they had not written the seven narcotic prescriptions bearing their signatures, and…