Scoggins v. State

Townsend, Presiding Judge.

1. “An incriminating statement, to be the equivalent of a confession of guilt, must be so comprehensive as to include every act necessary to be proved by the prosecution in order to establish the defendant’s guilt, and where the statement amounts only to an incriminatory admission, it is error for the trial judge to give in charge the law as it relates to confessions of guilt. Owens v. State, 120 Ga. 296 (48 S. E. 21).” Lee v. State, 81 Ga. App. 63 (57 S. E. 2d 710). See also Pressley v. State, 201 Ga. 267, 270 (39 S. E. 2d 478).

2. On a charge of aiding, abetting and…