State v. Collins

On the twentieth day of January, 1922, in the Circuit Court of Pike County, the appellant was found guilty of forgery in the third degree and her punishment assessed at three years’ imprisonment in the penitentiary.

Miss Collins, for many years a teacher, was at one time president of Pike College, in Bowling Green; subsequently she was admitted to the bar, and was a practising attorney at the time the information in this case, was lodged against her, March 26, 1921.

In the month of September, 1920, she undertook to negotiate a loan for one Mrs. Ida Burrus. She produced a mortgage and a note for…