Jones v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Stanley, Commissioner

Reversing.

The appeal is by Clara Jones, a young colored woman, from a judgment of guilt of uttering a forged check, the penalty being two years in prison. '

The check for $27, to which the name of Miss Julia Graves had been forged, was presented to a clerk in a store by a woman who represented herself to be Frances Bean, the name of the payee, in payment of groceries to the amount of $4. She received the balance in cash. Two clerks positively identified the defendant. But the clerk who accepted the check had not previously seen the defendant, he…