Hatley v. State

JAMES H. FAULKNER, Retired Justice.

Susan Butterworth Hatley was indicted for the offense of possession of a forged instrument in the second degree in violation of § 13A-9-6, Code of Alabama 1975. The jury found Hatley guilty as charged in the indictment, and the trial court sentenced her to three years’ imprisonment and then suspended her sentence and placed her on probation for three years.

Hatley contends that her trial counsel’s failure to object to the admission of the affidavit of forgery into evidence, his stipulation to certain facts, and his refusal to allow her to testify constituted…