Grantley v. State

1. The jury may accept or reject the defendant’s statement as a whole, or believe or disbelieve it in part, and in this discretion they are unlimited. Beatty v. State, 54 Ga. App. 280 (1) (187 S. E. 686); Largin v. State, 77 Ga. App. 111, 119 (47 S. E. 2d 895). Accordingly, where the defendant offered no witnesses to corroborate her statement to the jury that she rented out part of the rooms of the house in which she was living to others, who had equal access with herself to the rooms and kitchen, and where her statement contradicted the testimony of the only witness, a city detective offered…