BENNETT v. COM.

Record No. 0309-05-3.

631 S.E.2d 332 (2006)

48 Va. App. 354

Ira Dale BENNETT v. COMMONWEALTH of Virginia.

Court of Appeals of Virginia, Salem.

June 27, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Catherine E.P. Haas, Assistant Appellate Defender (Virginia Indigent Defense Commission, on briefs), for appellant.

Susan L. Parrish, Assistant Attorney General (Judith Williams Jadgmann, Attorney General, on brief), for appellee.

Present: ELDER and McCLANAHAN, JJ., and COLEMAN, Senior Judge.


SAM W. COLEMAN III, Senior Judge.

In a bench trial, Ira Dale Bennett was convicted of uttering a forged public record in violation of Code § 18.2-168. On appeal, appellant challenges the sufficiency of the evidence to support his conviction.1 This case presents a novel question — that is whether the act of signing a false name on an electronic screen, which constitutes a forgery, is also an uttering since the act of signing...

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