Fleming v. State

Georgia Court of Appeals
Fleming v. State, 41 S.E.2d 824 (1947)
74 Ga. App. 864; 1947 Ga. App. LEXIS 714
MacIntybe, Broyles, Gardner

Fleming v. State

Opinion of the Court

MacIntybe, J.

1. The evidence authorized the verdict finding the defendant guilty of carrying on a lottery in violation of the Code, § 26-6502.

2. The accusation charged a violation of § 26-6502, and the evidence authorized a verdict of guilty of the offense as charged. Even if the evidence also authorized a verdict of guilty of violating § 26-6501, which violation was not charged in the accusation, it was not error to fail to charge § 26-6501. Mosley v. State, 65 Ga. App. 800, 804 (16 S. E. 2d, 504); Collins v. State, 66 Ga. App. 325, 328 (18 S. E. 2d, 24); Carr v. State, 13 Ga. 328; Martin v. State, 123 Ga. 478 (51 S. E. 334).

3. It was not error, in the absence of a request, to fail to charge that, “In the ’ commission of a crime or misdemeanor, there must he a union or joint act and intention or criminal negligence” (Code, § 26-201), where the court fully charged on the essential elements of the crime with which *865 the defendant was charged. Bennett v. State, 49 Ga. App. 804 (4) (176 S. E. 148); Hagood v. State, 5 Ga. App. 80, 87 (62 S. E. 641).

Decided March 8, 1947. James N. Bahai, for plaintiff in error. Andrew J. Byan Jr., Solicitor-General, contra.

Judgment affirmed.

Broyles, O. J., and Gardner, J., concur.

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Fleming v. the State
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