People v. Baird

Citations

• 105 Cal. 126
• 38 P. 633
• 1894 Cal. LEXIS 1124

Syllabus

<p>Criminal Law—Forgery—Evidence—Other Forged Instruments— Proof of Forgery. —Upon a trial for forging a false instrument, evidence that the defendant about the same time had forged other false instruments of the same description is admissible for the purpose of showing guilty knowledge; but where such other instruments said to be forged are offered in proof of guilty knowledge there must be strict proof that they are forgeries.</p> <p>Id.—Admissions of Forgery.—Extrajudicial admissions of a defendant are not of themselves sufficient to establish the corpus delicti of a forgery, but there must be other distinct proof that the instruments offered in evidence were forged, in order to render them admissible.</p> <p>Id.—Waiver of Objection.—Although no other proof besides the admissions of the defendant was offered to show that other instruments offered in evidence were forgeries, yet, if no objection was made to their introduction in evidence on the ground that the proper foundation was not laid therefor, such objection is waived, and cannot be urged for the first time on appeal</p> <p>Id.—General Objection—Preliminary Proof.—The general objection that other forged instruments offered in evidence were incompetent and irrelevant is not sufficient to indicate that the defendant objected to their introduction because the proper foundation for their admission in evidence had not been laid by more strict proof that they were forgeries.</p>