O.C.G.A.
O.C.G.A. § 10-4-79 (2019)
Penalties for delivering cotton without production of receipt or failing to cancel receipt
✓ O.C.G.A. — 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)
Code text and O.C.G.A. statutory annotations on this page reflect the 2019 Official Code of Georgia Annotated (Public.Resource.Org Release 73, 2019-08-21; public domain per Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, 2020). The Syfert case-law annotations in Notes of Decisions, below, are current.
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Any manager, employee, agent, officer, or other person who shall deliver cotton from a warehouse under this article, except upon the production of the receipt therefor, or who shall fail to mark such receipt “canceled” on the delivery of the cotton shall be guilty of a felony and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not more than $5,000.00, or imprisonment for not more than five years in the state penitentiary, or both, in the discretion of the court.
History
Ga. L. 1918, p. 246, § 18; Code 1933, § 5-9902.
Annotations
RESEARCH REFERENCES C.J.S. 93 C.J.S., Warehousemen and Safe Depositaries, § 162.