Coleman v. State

FAULKNER, Justice.

Appellant, John D. Coleman, was indicted by the Grand Jury of Tuscaloosa County for the offense of forgery in the second degree in violation of Title 14, § 200, Code of Alabama 1940, Recompiled 1958. 1 Coleman, together with his attorney of record, waived his right to a jury trial. The case was tried by the circuit judge on a plea of not guilty. Coleman was found guilty as charged and sentenced to a year and a day in the State penitentiary of Alabama. He appealed from such conviction to the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals and assigned two errors. First, he challenged the…