Wagner v. State

By the Court.

Wagner was indicted, tried, and convicted of forgery and of uttering a forged instrument. The two counts in the indictment were based on the same instrument — a promissory note for $200. The Court of Appeals affirmed the judgment of conviction. Wagner prosecutes error in this court.

Several grounds of error are assigned. We are unable to sustain any, save one. Wagner testified in his own defense, and in his cross-examination counsel for the state was permitted, over the objection and exception of Wagner, to ask him if he had not been indicted for other acts of forgery and of…