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Dorsey v. State

Court of Appeals of Georgia
Jan 20, 1977
232 S.E.2d 405 (Ga. Ct. App. 1977)

Opinion

53143.

SUBMITTED JANUARY 5, 1977.

DECIDED JANUARY 20, 1977.

Burglary. Turner Superior Court. Before Judge Gray.

Cheryle T. Bryan, for appellant.

Thomas H. Pittman, District Attorney, Fred W. Rigdon, Jr., Assistant District Attorney, for appellee.


1. The oral motion to suppress, or objection to evidence, on the ground that the items introduced were seized without probable cause, was procedurally defective and shows no cause for reversal. Code Ann. § 27-313 (b); Graves v. State, 135 Ga. App. 921 ( 219 S.E.2d 633) (1975).

2. Defendant's statement to the sheriff that he had gotten the radio "out of Guess Plumbing," the burgled premises, was direct evidence as to his guilt, and no reversible error appears in the failure of the court to charge on circumstantial evidence without request therefor and in the absence of objection to the failure. Wilson v. State, 152 Ga. 337 (1) ( 110 S.E.2d 8) (1921); Johnson v. State, 235 Ga. 486 (3) ( 220 S.E.2d 448) (1975).

3. "While present law exempts the defendant in a criminal case from the strict requirements imposed on litigants in civil cases to preserve an issue on the giving of or the failure to give instructions to the jury (Ga. L. 1968, pp. 1072, 1078; Code Ann. § 70-207) this does not relieve him from the necessity of requesting instructions, or making timely objection in the trial court on the failure to give instructions, except in those circumstances where the omission is clearly harmful and erroneous as a matter of law in that it fails to provide the jury with the proper guidelines for determining guilt or innocence." Spear v. State, 230 Ga. 74 (1) ( 195 S.E.2d 397) (1973). Accord, Thomas v. State, 234 Ga. 615 ( 216 S.E.2d 859) (1975).

Judged by this standard, we find no merit with respect to other unobjected-to omissions to give in charge unrequested instructions.

4. The relief which Enumeration 7 asserts that the court below should have granted was not sought at trial, and the matter may not be raised for the first time here. Newberry v. State, 126 Ga. App. 81 (2) ( 189 S.E.2d 891) (1972).

5. The evidence, including the defendant's admission or confession that he had gotten the missing radio found in his possession from the burgled premises, was quite sufficient to support the verdict of guilty of burglary.

Judgment affirmed. Deen, P. J., and Marshall, J., concur.

SUBMITTED JANUARY 5, 1977 — DECIDED JANUARY 20, 1977.


Summaries of

Dorsey v. State

Court of Appeals of Georgia
Jan 20, 1977
232 S.E.2d 405 (Ga. Ct. App. 1977)
Case details for

Dorsey v. State

Case Details

Full title:DORSEY v. THE STATE

Court:Court of Appeals of Georgia

Date published: Jan 20, 1977

Citations

232 S.E.2d 405 (Ga. Ct. App. 1977)
232 S.E.2d 405

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