McDowell v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Settle

— Affirming.

The appellant was convicted and his punishment fixed at five years’ confinement in the penitentiary, under an indictment charging him with the crime of obtaining by false pretenses and statements the signature of one Sarah Harris to a writing, the false making of which would be forgery with the felonious intent to commit a fraud and obtain from her property of value. Following the conviction, motions in arrest of judgment and for a new trial were overruled. The grounds urged in support of the motion in arrest of judgment were that the indictment…