Anderson v. State

Deen, Chief Judge.

1. On defendant’s trial for selling a $5 package of marijuana to a buyer who was in fact a police officer, a motion to suppress evidence was made based on the contention that the sale, if made, is shown by the evidence to have been made an hour and a half before the arrest and the delayed arrest without a warrant is therefore illegal. We do not attempt to decide this point because where, as here, the defendant has been indicted and convicted, an illegal arrest is not in and of itself a ground of reversal. Scott v. State, 123 Ga. App. 675 (2) (182 SE2d 183) (1971). No…