Holt v. Commonwealth

MOREMEN, Judge.

Appellant, Diamond Holt, was convicted in the Casey Circuit Court of the crime of forgery and sentenced to confinement in the penitentiary for a period of two years.

Appellant, who was nineteen years of age at the time of the offense, lived with his grandmother, Emma L. Foley, age 72, in a residence located on the Casey-Russell County line. She had reared him from early childhood.

On August 20, 1961, appellant entered a service station in Liberty where he purchased three dollars and fifty cents’ worth of gasoline for his car and presented in payment a check in the amount of…