Commonwealth v. Cowan

Citations

• 4 Pa. Super. 579
• 1897 Pa. Super. LEXIS 167

Syllabus

<p>Criminal law — Forgery—Evidence.</p> <p>On an indictment for forgery, a card found in the defendant’s office upon which were certain words and figures in his handwriting tending to show experiments in simulating the instruments forged, is admissible in evidence, the issue being whether defendant altered the notes alleged to have been forged, with or without the consent of the indorser.</p> <p>Evidence — Contradiction of witness — Ground necessary to be laid.</p> <p>Where a question has for its purpose to lay ground for the contradiction of the witness it is within the sound discretion of the trial judge to exclude the question unless the witness is first examined as to the subject-matter, time, place and person involved in the supposed contradiction.</p>