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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

The STATE, use of MEDFORD, vs. SPENCE, REDDEN and HOUSTON.
    Hand-writing may be proved by a person who never saw the party write, if he have otherwise a knowledge of the character of his hand-writing.
    Debt on a constable’s bond.
    At the trial a witness was called to prove the hand-writing of the subscribing witness to the bond. He had never seen the party write, but he had seen a long account acknowledged by him to be his handwriting ; and from this he offered to swear to his belief of the signa» ture. The testimony was objected, to and admitted by the court. (See 2 Stark. Ev. 373, &c.)
    
      Brinckloe, for plaintiff.
    
      Robinson, for defendant.