Spray v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that making a false writing is chargeable in the county in which the defendant falsified the document and not the location of the government subdivision to which the document was submitted
• affirming a conviction for theft by taking when the Chief of Police misappropriated law enforcement items for personal use
• jury could reasonably conclude that public official intended to take state property for his own personal use at time he received it and thus was guilty of an unlawful taking
• jury could reasonably conclude that public official intended to take state property for his own personal use at time he received it and thus was guilty of an unlawful taking
• where defendant is charged with unlawfully taking property belonging to another, “the evidence must show that the requisite intent to deprive the owner of the property was present at the time of the taking”
• “[T]he manner in which the theft occurred is not necessarily determinative. Instead, the question is whether the appellant had thé requisite intent to deprive the State of Georgia of the goods at the time appellant received the property.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).