Hayes v. State

Beasley, Judge.

Defendant appeals his convictions for two counts of arson in the second degree, OCGA § 16-7-61, and escape, OCGA § 16-10-52, while awaiting trial on the arson charges. He enumerates two bases for error: the trial court erred in allowing a police officer to give hearsay and opinion testimony; the trial court erred in permitting certified copies of defendant’s previous convictions to be admitted into evidence.

1. The first enumeration of error concerns three different objections made while a police officer was testifying for the State. Each enumeration may properly contain only…