Byers v. State

311 Ga. 259

FINAL COPY S21A0296. BYERS v. THE STATE. PETERSON, Justice. Christopher Byers appeals his convictions for malice murder, aggravated battery, concealing the death of another, abandonment of a dead body, and tampering with evidence, all related to the killing of Ray Walnoha.1 Byers’s primary enumeration of error is that the trial court erred by excluding inculpatory statements by 1 Walnoha was killed sometime in late July 2014. On December 7, 2016, a Pickens County grand jury indicted Byers and Arnold Griffith, Jr., for malice murder and other crimes. On February 2, 2018, the grand…