§ 11-17-6 - Evidence as to handwriting. - Rhode Island Statutes

SECTION 11-17-6

   § 11-17-6  Evidence as to handwriting.– In no prosecutions for forging, counterfeiting, or altering any bank bill ornote or for uttering, passing, or tendering in payment as true any false,forged, counterfeited, or altered bank bill or note, or for bringing into thisstate or for having in possession or custody any false, forged, counterfeited,or altered bank bill or note with intent to pass it as true, knowing it to befalse, forged, counterfeited, or altered, shall the testimony of any personwhose name is purported to be signed to the bill or note or his or her personalattendance as a witness be requisite, when he or she shall be absent from thisstate at the time of the trial or when his or her place of residence shall beoutside the limits of this state or more than thirty (30) miles from the placeof trial, but the testimony of any competent witness who is acquainted with thehandwriting of the person or who has knowledge of the difference between trueand counterfeit or altered bank bills and who is skilled in the differenceshall be received as competent evidence to prove any bank bill or note to befalse, forged, counterfeited, or altered.