General Court of Virginia November 15, 1823 (Attoo v. Commonwealth)

This was an application for a Writ of Error to a judgment of the Superior Court of Law for Augusta county, whereby the petitioner was sentenced to be confined in the Public Jail and Peuitentiary-house, for the term of four years.

The prisoner was indicted as a free man of colour, of the forgery “of a paper writing to the prejudice of the right” of one Jacob Coiner.