Walls v. State

McMurray, Presiding Judge.

Defendant was indicted, tried and convicted of the offense of theft by deception in unlawfully obtaining property of Pickens County, Georgia, the same being in the amount of $73,750.95 paid to him by check, the United States currency represented thereby, with the intention of depriving the owner, Pickens County, thereof, by deceitful means and artful practice in the sale of certain equipment to Pickens County which the defendant did not own, said equipment being owned by another, and depriving the owner of said payment by converting said payment to his own use. He…