Dunbar v. State

Smith, Judge.

David Lee Dunbar was tried before a jury and found guilty of selling crack cocaine. He appeals from the judgment of conviction and sentence entered by the trial court on the jury’s verdict of guilt.

1. Dunbar enumerates as error the purported violation of the rule of sequestration.

After the rule was invoked, OCGA § 24-9-61, the lead investigator testified first and then was permitted to remain in the courtroom during the remainder of trial to assist the presentation of the State’s case. Over objection, this witness was twice recalled to the stand. It was not an abuse of the trial…