Hedger v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Thomas

Affirming.

The appellant and defendant below, Woodrow Hedger, was convicted in the Clark circuit court of uttering a forged check drawn on the People’s State Bank & Trust Company of Winchester, Kentucky, for the sum of $18.25, payable to James Maston, and signed “H. B. Spencer, ’ ’ which was a forgery and known to be such by defendant, and which offense is one denounced by section 1185 of Baldwin’s 1936 Revision of Carroll’s Kentucky Statutes, 432.100 and 434.130 KRS, his punishment being fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for two years. From the…