Wilson v. State

Hall, Justice.

On this appeal from Wilson’s conviction of murder and armed robbery, the foremost issue is whether the trial court erred in allowing the district attorney to impeach his own witness Pickall by introducing Pickall’s prior inconsistent statement, when Pickall’s testimony had not damaged the state’s case save by failing to bolster it as hoped. We find that there is a conflict in the applicable Georgia cases interpreting the controlling statute, Code Ann. § 38-1801. This impeachment was not permissible under certain of these cases; however, that result has no sound supporting…