Grant v. State

Birdsong, Presiding Judge.

We granted this interlocutory appeal to determine whether the trial court erred in denying Jeffery R. Grant’s and Georgia Southern Lumber Inc.’s special demurrers to the Racketeer Influenced & Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) prosecution under OCGA § 16-14-1 et seq. against them. Appellants were indicted with others for timber transactions wherein they fraudulently obtained timber, misrepresented the acreage of timber bought or sold, or sold timber at a price excessively greater than market price by fraudulently calculating the acreage or timber involved.

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