Stephens v. State

Birdsong, Presiding Judge.

Freddie L. Stephens appeals his judgment of conviction of violating the Georgia Controlled Substances Act (possession of cocaine) and obstruction of an officer, and his sentence. He enumerates two errors. Held:

1. Appellant asserts the trial court erred by restricting his cross-examination of the State’s crime lab witness when it refused to allow appellant to examine the witness regarding another crime lab scientist who testified at a hearing in another county in an unrelated case that a substance was cocaine when in fact it was soap. Appellant made a proffer of…