Brannen v. Prince

I concur fully in Divisions 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, and 8, and in the result reached by my colleagues as to Division 4. However, for the following independent reasons, I conclude that error was not committed when the trial court allowed the cross-examination of appellant’s expert neurologist, regarding a medical article found in the Neurosurgery medical journal.

1. As a general rule, “[u]nder Georgia law, an expert witness can be cross-examined by reference to a standard treatise in the field of the expert’s special knowledge, if the treatise has been proven to be a standard treatise on the subject,…