Wooten v. State

1. Under repeated rulings of the Supreme Court and of this court, incriminatory evidence, obtained by an illegal arrest, is admissible, if such evidence is relevant. Calhoun v. State, 144 Ga. 679 (87 S. E. 893); Calhoun v. State, 17 Ga. App. 705 (88 S. E. 586). Under this ruling, special grounds 4, 7, 8, and 9 of the motion for a new trial are without merit.

2. “The trial judge may, without violating the principles of section 1032 of the Penal Code [section 1058 of the Penal Code of 1910], give his reasons for a ruling on objections to testimony, though these reasons may state somewhat of the…