Wright v. State

Shulman, Chief Judge.

Appellant was indicted for and convicted of forgery. Code Ann. § 26-1701 (OCGA § 16-9-1). He now appeals from that conviction, alleging several enumerations of error.

1. Appellant first protests the state’s use of the theory of parties to a crime (Code Ann. § 26-801 (OCGA § 16-2-20)) to convict appellant of forgery when the indictment did not charge him with being a party to the crime.

A person need not be indicted under § 26-801 before the state may prove his culpability for a crime as a party to that crime. Hughes v. State, 150 Ga. App. 90 (256 SE2d 634). While it may be…