Harvey v. State

Nichols, Presiding Judge.

“ ‘There is a very wide distinction between admitting the main fact and admitting some minor or subordinate fact or series of facts which could be true whether the main fact existed or not.’ [Fletcher v. State, 90 Ga. 468]. A confession is a voluntary admission of guilt; an admission as applied to criminal cases, is the avowal of a fact or of circumstances from which guilt may be inferred, but only tending to prove the offense charged and not amounting to a confession of guilt.” Riley v. State, 1 Ga. App. 651 (3) (57 SE 1031). “An incriminating statement is indirect…