Ridener v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Richardson

Reversing.

Charged by an indictment in the Grant circuit court with the crime of uttering a forged instrument, E. M. Ridener was convicted and sentenced two years in the state reformatory. The crime is charged to have been committed by his erasing Harry Pelley’s name and writing in its place in a deed the-name “James J. Carroll,” and the presenting the same in the office of the county clerk of Grant county to a deputy clerk and causing the same to be recorded.

On the 2d day of May, 1933, Ridener completed a trade with William C. Orr for the purchase of a…