Legal Opinion
MATHIS v. the STATE.
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Decided October 19, 2017No. A17A0858PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Self, Judge.
*206 Following a jury trial, the Superior Court of Floyd County entered judgments of conviction against Christopher Mathis on 52 counts related to Mathis' theft of more than $600,000 as the operator of a Ponzi scheme.
*6 With the exception of correcting three of Mathis' sentences, the trial court denied Mathis' motion for new trial as amended and Mathis appeals. Mathis now contends that the trial court erred in a portion of its jury instruction and that it failed to merge his convictions for theft by conversion and theft by deception into his convictions for theft by taking. Because we…
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