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1785. Sessions.

a Man well known, and easily found in Calcutta, and therefore Mr. Justice Hyde, informed the Jury he was the only Man who could be call’d as a Witness to prove his own writing, and to shew either that he signed the Note by proper authority, or whether the Prisoner knew he signed it without authority: Or if the Prosecutor knew that Man was Guilty of Forgery, he ought to have join’d
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