Com. v. Rankin (No. 1)

Opinion by

Baldrige, P. J.,

The appellants, when this prosecution arose, were duly elected commissioners of Fayette County. They were jointly indicted together with their chief clerk Earl Huston, at Nos. 71 and 73, March Sessions 1943.

Bill No. 71 charged the defendants with altering, defacing and falsifying the minute book of the county commissioners in that they “unlawfully and feloniously did then and there remove and cause to be removed . . . a certain page, known, designated and numbered as page number six hundred and thirty-nine” of minute book 2, and substituted a new and different page…