Court Opinion

ID: 9767906
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Date Created: 2023-08-29 05:33:13.021403+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:30:34.497018
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OPINION ON APPELLANT'S MOTION FOR REHEARING
MORRISON, Judge.
While it is true that objection was made to the confession introduced as State’s Exhibit No. 4 because it was not the best evidence we must determine whether or not appellant admitted that it was a correct copy of the original and whether or not he signed the same. When presented to him and when questioned as to its correctness and the similarity of his signature, which was placed on the back of the Exhibit at the time of the hearing, and the signature appearing on the face of the same instrument, we find the following answers:
“A. Well, it looks familiar — I can’t say for sure one way or the other.”
“A. It looks familiar.”
“A. I couldn’t be sure if I signed that or not.”
In answer to counsel’s brief on rehearing we quote from IV Wigmore on Evidence, Third Edition, Section 1191, p. 334:
“Production of the original may be dispensed with, in the trial Court’s discretion, whenever in the case in hand the opponent does not bona fide dispute the contents of the document and no other useful purpose will be served by requiring production.”
Remaining convinced of the correctness of our original disposition of this cause appellant’s motion for rehearing is overruled.
DOUGLAS, J., not participating.