Ward v. Commonwealth

STEINFELD, Judge.

James Ward was convicted of forgery, a crime denounced by KRS 434.130(1), and sentenced to penitentiary confinement for two years. He appeals, claiming that the indictment was fatally defective and the proof was insufficient to sustain the verdict. We affirm.

On June 29, 1968, Ward appeared in the office of the county clerk of Johnson County and represented to a deputy clerk that he was Carl Lester, the owner of a motor vehicle. He produced the registration papers for the car, executed the name of Lester “on the transfer papers” (KRS 186.-190(2)) and caused the record title of…