Padula v. State

Jordan, Presiding Judge.

This is an appeal from a conviction and sentence for forgery and uttering a forged instrument and the overruling of a motion for new trial. Held:

1. Under the circumstances as hereafter shown no harmful error is disclosed by the refusal of the trial court to exclude documents offered by the State for handwriting comparison in proof that the accused was the perpetrator of the offenses. Counsel for the accused relies on 'Code § 38-709, which provides that "Other writings, proved or acknowledged to be genuine, may be admitted in evidence for the purpose of comparison by…