Owens v. State

Quillian, Chief Judge.

Defendant appeals his conviction for burglary. Held:

Although the sole enumeration is the general grounds, we will consider the only argument thereunder, which is that the trial court erred in admitting opinion testimony of a law enforcement officer that defendant’s pretrial statement was freely and voluntarily made.

Defendant argues that because the issue of the voluntariness of a statement is a jury question, opinion testimony that the statement was voluntarily made was a conclusion which invaded the province of the jury.

The evidence shows that the officer testified in a…