Arnold v. State

Beasley, Presiding Judge.

A jury convicted Arnold of theft by deception, OCGA § 16-8-3, in obtaining a $250,000 loan by intentionally and falsely representing to the lenders that he owned certain real property to secure the loan and that he had conveyed the property to the lenders, when in fact he never owned the property and thus could not convey it. A new trial was denied. Arnold challenges the sufficiency of the evidence with respect to the charge as specified and the trial court’s failure or refusal to give three jury instructions.

There are five separate enumerations of error, but Arnold…