Case Name: DYAS v. THE STATE
Court: Supreme Court of Georgia
Jurisdiction: Georgia
Decision Date: 1906-11-07
Citations: 126 Ga. 556
Docket Number: 
Parties: DYAS v. THE STATE.
Judges: All the Justices concur.
Reporter: Georgia Reports
Volume: 126
Pages: 556–557

Head Matter:
DYAS v. THE STATE.
The venue for a prosecution, under the act of 1903, Jor cheating and swindling (Acts 1903, p. 90), is in the county where the advance is received. It follows that where the accusation lays the venue in one county, and the evidence discloses the advance to have been received in another county, the evidence does not support the verdict.
Submitted October 15,
Decided November 7, 1906.
Accusation of misdemeanor. Before Judge Crisp. City court of Americus. July 10, 1906.
Q. G. Webb and G. B. Ellis, for plaintiff in error.
Allen Fort, Jr., solicitor, contra.

Opinion:
Atkinson, J.
In the city court of Americus the defendant was convicted under an accusation charging him with the offense of cheating and swindling, under the act of 1903 (Acts 1903, p. 90). The venue was laid in Sumter county. Hpon the trial, the evidence disclosed that while the agreement to labor was made in the county of Sumter, where the labor was intended to be performed, tbe written contract to labor was executed in tbe county of Lee; that tbe application for tbe advance was made in tbe county of Lee, and tbe advance was actually made and received in that county. Obtaining the money with tbe intention not to perform tbe contract, where loss to tbe hirer results, is tbe gist of tbe offense. That was tbe criminal act of the defendant which damaged tbe prosecutor. This having been accomplished in Lee county fixed tbe venue of tbe offense there, and tbe court in Sumter county was without jurisdiction. A new trial should have been granted.
Judgment reversed.
All the Justices concur.