Hunter v. State

Beasley, Judge.

Defendant was convicted in Coweta County of theft by receiving stolen property and enumerates as error the lack of proof of venue.

Shortly following the occurrence of two burglaries in Coweta County, an investigator with that county’s sheriffs department was informed that defendant had the property taken in the burglaries. The investigator went to defendant’s home and, with the consent of defendant’s wife, searched and found several of the stolen items.

Venue in criminal cases must be proved as a jurisdictional fact beyond a reasonable doubt; otherwise the judgment is void.…