Hinshaw

There seems to be no substantial merit in this appeal from a conviction of the crime of forgery. The evidence was amply sufficient to support the verdict. It consisted in part of the confession of the defendant. This was supplemented by the testimony of a witness who positively identified appellant as the one who cashed the check and by the unequivocal denial of the genuineness of the signature by the purported maker or drawer of the instrument. Indeed, appellant does not claim that the verdict lacks sufficient support, but he relies upon certain alleged errors committed by the court in the progress of the trial.

Of these one relates to a ruling sustaining the district attorney’s objection to these questions addressed to the prospective jurors on their voir dire: (a) “Now, if you are accepted as a juror and you enter the jury-room to deliberate and find a verdict, and you had once voted ‘not guilty,’ would you then change your vote to one of ‘guilty’ and if so, why? (b) When you are discussing the evidence and the law after the case has been put in the hands of the jury to deliberate, and you had forgotten some part or parcel of the evidence, or the jurors did not agree upon what…