State v. Fugate

Woods, Judge:

Banner Fugate was indicted in the common pleas court of Cabell county charged in one count with forgery of a bant check, and in another with uttering and an attempt to employ as true said forged check. He was tried, found guilty and sentenced to a term of five years in the penitentiary. The case comes here from a judgment of the circuit court of said county affirming the action of the common pleas court.

According to the testimony of the State, on the day of the alleged forgery, the defendant, a youth, came from Ash-land, Kentucky, where he had been working, to Huntington, and…