State v. Painter

I. Certain letters claimed to have been written by the defendant to the prosecutrix were introduced in evidence by the State for the purpose of corroborating the prosecutrix. Whether these letters or some of them were written by the defendant was a controverted question before both the court and jury. Sufficient proof for that purpose having been made, the court permitted the letters to go to the jury as evidence, and instructed them as follows:

“If you believe from all the evidence before you, and from dhe subject-matter of the letters, that any letters in evidence *318were dictated by him and…