Case ID: ga-app_74/html/0864-01.html
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Author: {"author": "MacIntybe, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

31493.
    Fleming v. The State.
   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 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.