Davis v. Commonwealth

HILL, Judge.

This is an appeal from the Jefferson Circuit Court wherein the appellant, Raymond T. Davis, was sentenced to two year’s confinement in the penitentiary for the offense of uttering a forged instrument in writing, as denounced by KRS 434.130. More specifically, the appellant presented a promissory note to the Citizens Fidelity Bank and Trust Company in Louisville Kentucky, (hereinafter referred to as Citizens) bearing the allegedly forged signatures of W. Ray Stark and Emma L. Stark, his wife.

In 1960, the appellant and Mr. and Mrs. Stark jointly formed a business corporation which…