Seabrooks v. State

Bell, Justice.

Appellant was convicted of selling cocaine, and his conviction was affirmed by the Court of Appeals in Seabrooks v. State, 164 Ga. App. 747 (2) (297 SE2d 745) (1982). We granted a writ of certiorari to review the second division of that opinion, in particular the court’s interpretation and application therein of the legal standards for ascertaining whether evidence of independent crimes is admissible and whether erroneously admitted evidence is harmlessly cumulative. We affirm, but for different reasons.

Seabrooks was charged with selling about a gram of cocaine in July 1981 to…