Commonwealth v. Adkins

Opinion op the Court by

Judge' Carroll

Certifying the Law.

The appellee, Adkins, was indicted in the Daviess circuit court on a charge of uttering a forged check purporting to have been drawn by one J. W. Sanders on the Hancock Deposit Bank of Hawesville. The indictment was found on May 24, 1916, and the defendant being in jail, the case was set for trial on June 2. When the *301case was called for trial on this day the attorney for the Commonwealth moved the court to continue the prosecution on account of the absence of George Wilson, the cashier of the Hancock Deposit Bank and an important witness…