Difficulties in Proving Forgery.

The article focuses on difficulties in proving forgery. The June 1934 issue of the Pennsylvania Law Review contains an article on the "Difficulties in Proving Forgery" by Albert S. Osborn. In it Osborn lists, as follows, some of the difficulties frequently encountered in attempting to prove a forgery, and then, in his usual interesting and convincing style, he discusses each difficulty at considerable length: positive supporting perjury by co-conspirators; definite and detailed perjury by relatives and friendly witnesses actuated by sympathy and friendship; restrictive legal rules still in force in certain states regarding handwriting and document expert testimony; objections and arguments by an alert attorney, whose aim is to prevent proof, who quotes the old critical pronouncements which were the direct outgrowth of the ancient laws excluding standards of comparison, reasons for opinions, and the use of enlarged photographs and all optical instruments; lack of scientific training and technical knowledge of the subject of forgery by attorneys and judges; etc.