Slaughter v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Thomas

Reversing.

Tbe grand jury of Jefferson county returned an indictment against appellant and defendant below, John E. Slaughter, accusing him of the crime of unlawfully, feloniously and falsely obtaining the signature of Jessie Stewart to a deed (the false making whereof would be forgery), by false pretenses, statements, and representations, and with the intention to commit a fraud, one of the offenses denounced by section 1208 of our present Statutes. At his trial thereunder he was convicted, and was punished by confinement in the penitentiary for a period of…