State v. Edwards

Ellington, Judge.

Pursuant to OCGA § 5-7-1 (a) (4), the State of Georgia appeals from an order of the Superior Court of Fulton County granting Oliver Edwards’ motion to suppress evidence and dismissing the charges against him. The State contends that the trial court erred in suppressing the evidence based upon the State’s failure to produce the arrest warrant upon which Edwards was arrested and, as a consequence, its failure to prove that, at the time Edwards was arrested, the warrant actually existed. For the following reasons, we reverse.

As an initial matter, it is axiomatic that “[e]vidence…