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Effect of failure to call a handwriting expert in a charge of forgery

Essential ingredient of the crime of forging a will

How to prove forgery

Ingredients of forgery under Section 182(1)(j) of the 1999 Constitution

Intention to defraud

1 subsidiary principles

Meaning of forgery

Nature and proof of the offence of forgery

Nature of pretence required to be proved in the offence of forgery

Nature of the offence of forgery under the Criminal Code

On when the offence of forgery is complete

The essence of the offence of forgery

The intents required to be proved in the offence of forgery

The rule that in a case of forgery, both the original document and the fake (forged one) must be produced in Court for examination

What forgery entails

Whether a person can be convicted for forging the name of a fictitious person

Whether it is only persons who wrote or signed a forged document that can be convicted for forgery

Whether knowledge on the part of the accused that the document was a forged one is enough to ground his conviction for forgery under section 112 of the Armed Forces Decree

Whether the offence of forgery is complete without any publication or uttering of the instrument

Whether the prosecution must prove each individual instance of forgery

Whether the type of document set put in the particulars is material to imposing heavier punishments for certain types of documents

Whether there is a need to call a witness to testify where the evidence of forgery is clear on the face of the documents before the court

Whether, in proving the offence of forgery, the person whose signature is alleged to have been forged must be called as a witness

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