Opinion
56951.
SUBMITTED NOVEMBER 7, 1978.
DECIDED NOVEMBER 22, 1978.
Burglary, etc. Butts Juvenile Court. Before Judge Watkins.
William P. Bartles, for appellant.
E. Byron Smith, District Attorney, Hal Craig, Assistant District Attorney, for appellee.
This sixteen-year-old juvenile appeals his conviction by the Juvenile Court on two counts of burglary, charging that the court erred in denying his motion to suppress a confession and that there was insufficient evidence to corroborate the confession. He asserted also that the court erred in refusing to grant his motion to dismiss. There is no merit in his contentions, and we affirm.
The juvenile was picked up by Newton County authorities about 11:30 p. m. on June 12, 1978 at the request of the Butts County sheriff's department. Before turning the boy over to the Butts County deputies the Newton County officers called his father and asked if he would come and pick up his son, but he declined. Newton County or Covington police then delivered the boy to Butts County law officers at the county line shortly after midnight, and he was placed in the juvenile detention cell in the City of Jackson at 12:51 a. m. on June 13. At approximately 5 to 5:30 p. m. on that day he was taken by a juvenile probation officer and a deputy sheriff to the home of the boy's father. There he was advised of his rights, signed a waiver, and gave a statement concerning the two burglaries. The boy's father was present during the time and joined his son in signing both the statement and the waiver.
There was no violation of the eighteen hour rule set out in Code Ann. § 24A-1403 (a) (4 C), no reason appears for the suppression of the confession, and there was no error in denying the motion to dismiss.
There was adequate testimony about the burglaries to prove the corpus delicti independent of the confession, and to authorize the juvenile's conviction. D.C. A. v. State of Ga., 135 Ga. App. 234 (3) ( 217 S.E.2d 470) (1975).
Judgment affirmed. Quillian, P. J., and McMurray, J., concur.