Thomas v. State

Phipps, Presiding Judge.

A jury found Sara Thomas and her daughter guilty of three counts of theft by shoplifting and Thomas, alone, guilty of giving a false name to a police officer. Thomas appeals her convictions, contending that the trial court erred in admitting at trial her custodial statement. For the following reasons, we affirm.

Thomas contends that her custodial statement was not voluntarily made and that she was induced to make it because she feared that she and her daughter would be taken to jail and her grandchildren would be taken into the custody of the Georgia Department of Human…