Lawless v. Commonwealth

Opinion of tite Court by

Drury, Commissioner

Affirming;.

The appellant was convicted of forgery. His punishment was fixed at two years ’ confinement in the penitentiary, and he is very much dissatisfied. The indictment charges in great detail that appellant forged a writing known as “The Grade Sheet,”-which was a report sent out by the state superintendent of public instruction, and was a record in appellant’s office as superintendent of the Russell county schools, which grade sheet was changed and altered with the intent .-and purpose of injuring Lena Hale.

Lena Hale had taught school for nine…