State v. Westberry

Hall, Justice.

After the Court of Appeals reversed Westberry’s convictions for burglary and theft by taking on the ground that the state had improperly been allowed to impeach its own witness by introducing evidence of her prior inconsistent statement incriminating Westberry, we granted certiorari upon the state’s petition in order to decide whether the Court of Appeals’ treatment of the issue is consistent with our recent decisions of Wilson v. State, 235 Ga. 470 (219 SE2d 756) (1975), and Wisdom v. State, 234 Ga. 650, 654 (217 SE2d 244) (1975). We conclude that it is not; that upon the facts…