Threadgill v. State

Citations

• 75 Fla. 240
• 77 So. 880

Syllabus

<p>1. In tbe prosecution of an information for forgery of ¡a deed and for uttering it knowing it to have been a forgery, it is error to admit in evidence 'over tbe defendant’s objection a certified copy of a record of tbe instrument wbicb was recorded in tbe official records of tbe county, in tbe absence of any showing by tbe State that tbe instrument is lost or destroyed, or not witbin rejacb of tbe process of tbe court, or is in possesion of tbe defendant, in wbicb latter case reasonable. notice must be given to tbe defendant to produce it.</p> <p>2. Tbe production of tbe forged instrument is an essential part of tbe case in a prosecution for forgery unless its absence is properly accounted for.</p>