Morgan Sinclair Goodwin v. Commonwealth of Virginia

DECKER, Judge.

Morgan Sinclair Goodwin appeals his three convictions for uttering a public record, in violation of Code § 18.2-168. He argues that the Commonwealth failed to present sufficient evidence to prove that he did anything other than sign three summonses with a false name. The appellant suggests that his actions did not constitute utterings under Virginia law because the evidence failed to prove that he acted with the “purpose of obtaining the [object] mentioned” in the summonses. We hold that the evidence was sufficient to prove that the appellant uttered public records.…