Smith v. State

McMURRAY, Presiding Judge.

Defendant Smith appeals his conviction of the offenses of kidnapping, armed robbery, and criminal attempt to rape. Held:

1. Defendant attempted to testify as to the victim’s accusation that another person was the perpetrator of the crimes of which he now stands convicted. The prosecuting attorney objected sufficiently to invoke the rule stated in Strickland v. State, 205 Ga. App. 473 (422 SE2d 312), that before admitting evidence of prior false accusations by a victim of a crime within the proscription of the rape shield law, the trial court must first determine…