Daniels v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Clarke

Affirming.

The appellant, John P. Daniels, was jointly indicted with his son, G. C. Daniels, for forging and uttering a deed for a tract of land in Pike county, from James C. Justice to John P. Daniels, and upon a separate trial was convicted of uttering the instrument, and sentenced to confinement for five years in the penitentiary, from which judgment he is prosecuting this appeal.

1. It is admitted that the instrument was a forgery, but it is urgently insisted that there was not sufficient evidence that the appellant knowingly uttered the instrument to…