Powell v. Commonwealth

At the March term, 1936, of the Corporation Court of the City of Danville, Gordon H. Powell was indicted for forgery. He was charged with forging what purported to be a note of W. F. Knight for $1,000 of date December 5, 1935, and was charged also with uttering the same, knowing it to be forged. This note was discounted by the Industrial Bank of Danville. At the same term a number of other indictments were returned against Powell, charging him with forging other notes, both before and after the Knight note was forged, among which was one of T. J. Wood for $1,-500, one of E. W. Arnett for…