Griffie v. State

Jordan, Judge.

Johnnie Henry Griffie, Jr., under an indictment charging him with the offense of larceny of an automobile, was tried and convicted in the Superior Court of Fulton County. His amended motion for new trial on the general and four special grounds was denied and the excepton is to that judgment. Held:

1. The trial court did not err, as contended in special ground 1, in allowing a witness for the State to testify in regard to certain facts disclosed to him in a telephone conversation, over the objection of the defendant’s counsel that said testimony constituted hearsay. The testimony…