Doe v. State
Annotate this CaseDefendant was convicted for "Falsely Uttering a State Lottery Ticket" where defendant was accused of taking approximately 65 scratch-off tickets. Defendant stole the lottery tickets by leaning over a store counter and tearing the tickets from their dispenser. He scratched the tickets to see if he had won a prize, and when he saw that he had not, he threw all of the tickets away. At issue was whether the Court of Appeals erred in finding that the theft of lottery tickets from a lottery ticket dispenser was sufficient to constitute tampering with lottery materials within the meaning of OCGA 50-27-27. The court held that, by tampering with lottery materials in the manner that defendant did, he could properly be found guilty of violating the statute. Accordingly, the court affirmed the judgment.
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