If any person forge a public record, or certificate, return, or attestation, of any public officer or public employee, in relation to any matter wherein such certificate, return, or attestation may be received as legal proof, or utter, or attempt to employ as true, such forged record, certificate, return, or attestation, knowing the same to be forged, he shall be guilty of a Class 4 felony.
Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-168
Forging public records, etc
Applied in 12 court decisions — leading case Campbell v. Commonwealth (1993)
Most recently applied in Alvarez v. Lynch (July 2016)
Code 1950, § 18.1-92; 1960, c. 358; 1975, cc. 14, 15; 1976, c. 146.
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