Mattingly v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Turner, Commissioner

Reversing.

Upon his trial charged with forgery, appellant was found guilty and sentenced to two years’ imprisonment.

The essential facts -developed on the- trial are that on May 5, 1922-, appellant prepared, or had prepared, a note pay-able to Fred Cullen for $200, payable- in -one year; that he signed the note himself, and then presented the same to Clyde Brown, and requested him to sign it as -surety, -saying to him that he expected to get T. L. Finney to also sign as surety; that Brown thereupon signed it and never thereafter saw the note until the…