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It would be the guilty alone who would feel shaky about it and would like to avoid giving a writing for purposes of comparison. Surely the law would not contemplate an accused to escape the penalty of law merely because he raises an objection to giving a writing when no question is possible to be raised that the writing so obtained was not really the writing of the accused. Forced confessions may be untrue; any other information given by word of mouth or by gestures under duress may be untrue; but a writing given by an accused would be his writing.