WARD v. COMMONWEALTH


444 S.W.2d 896 (1969)

James WARD, Appellant, v. COMMONWEALTH of Kentucky, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Kentucky.

September 19, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

S. H. Johnson, Johnson & Johnson, Paintsville, for appellant.

John B. Breckinridge, Atty. Gen., Ben M. Combs, Deputy Atty. Gen., Frankfort, Eugene C. Rice, Commonwealth's Atty., Paintsville, for appellee.


STEINFELD, Judge.

James Ward was convicted of forgery, a crime denounced by KRS 434.130(1), and sentenced to penitentiary confinement for two years. He appeals, claiming that the indictment was fatally defective and the proof was insufficient to sustain the verdict. We affirm.

On June 29, 1968, Ward appeared in the office of the county clerk of Johnson County and represented to a deputy clerk that he was Carl Lester, the owner of a motor vehicle. He produced...

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