Cummings v. State

Nichols, Presiding Judge.

The defendant contends that the trial court erred in admitting in evidence, over objection, testimony of the arresting officers that they found on the premises of the defendant’s business, a restaurant, more than the legal quantity of tax-paid liquor because such evidence was discovered as the result of an illegal search and seizure. “An admission of the accused in open court, made as a part of his statement on the trial, may be treated by the jury as direct evidence of that fact.” Hargroves v. State, 179 Ga. 722 (4) (177 SE 561). In his unsworn statement to the jury…