New v. State

Banke, Presiding Judge.

The defendant appeals his conviction of driving a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol or drugs. Held:

1. We reject the defendant’s contention that the court erred in allowing into evidence, without a showing as to voluntariness, his admission to a police officer that he had “smoked a joint.” The facts in this case are quite similar to those considered by this court in Chester v. State, 157 Ga. App. .191 (276 SE2d 684) (1981). Here, as there, the question which provoked the admission was clearly a permissible threshold inquiry made at a time when the…