Newsom v. State

McMurray, Presiding Judge.

Defendant appeals her convictions in the Superior Court of Pike County of three counts of theft by taking and twenty counts of financial transaction card fraud. Held:

1. Defendant’s convictions on the twenty counts of financial transaction card fraud were not authorized as the evidence did not establish proper venue. In each of these twenty counts, it was charged that defendant did “without authority and with intent to defraud the cardholder obtain goods, by presenting ... a financial transaction card being held by [defendant’s employer] to [a merchant] . . . .” This…