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Walker v. State

Court of Appeals of Georgia
Feb 13, 1985
326 S.E.2d 833 (Ga. Ct. App. 1985)

Opinion

69108.

DECIDED FEBRUARY 13, 1985.

Drug violation. Fulton Superior Court. Before Judge Etheridge.

Wesley M. Mathews, Jr., Thomas R. Moran, for appellant.

Lewis R. Slaton, District Attorney, Joseph J. Drolet, Andrew Weathers, Margaret V. Lines, Assistant District Attorneys, for appellee.


Larry Walker brings this appeal from his conviction of possession of marijuana with intent to distribute same, a violation of the Georgia Controlled Substances Act. Held:

Appellant's sole enumeration of error challenges the trial court's admitting State's Exhibits 1 and 1A into evidence. The record shows that State's Exhibit 1 was a brown paper bag which contained $80 in cash and 32 manila envelopes containing marijuana. State's Exhibit 1A was the brown paper bag itself absent its contents. The evidence shows that appellant approached a plain-clothes police officer and handed him one of the manila envelopes from the subject brown paper bag. The officer attempted to seize appellant, but appellant broke loose and fled into a nearby wooded area with the brown paper bag. The bag was discovered shortly thereafter along the path taken by appellant during his flight. The manila envelopes in the bag were indistinguishable from the one appellant had handed to the officer. Appellant was arrested in the same vicinity a short while later.

The objection offered at trial to State's Exhibits 1 and 1A was, "I object, but I don't know why." Clearly, this "objection" is insufficient to present a question on appeal as to the admissibility of the subject exhibits. Walker v. State, 226 Ga. 292 (2) ( 174 S.E.2d 440) (1970), sentence vacated, Sullivan v. State, 229 Ga. 731 ( 194 S.E.2d 410) (1972). See Lackey v. State, 217 Ga. 345 (1) ( 122 S.E.2d 115) (1961). In any event, the testimony at trial sufficiently "connected" appellant with the exhibits and thus was admissible, their probative value and weight to be determined by the trier of fact. See McCranie v. State, 151 Ga. App. 871 (3) ( 261 S.E.2d 779) (1979); see also Harper v. State, 249 Ga. 46 (2) ( 287 S.E.2d 211) (1982); Lewis v. State, 158 Ga. App. 586 (1) ( 281 S.E.2d 331) (1981); Kates v. State, 152 Ga. App. 29 (2) ( 262 S.E.2d 221) (1979). Appellant's complaints regarding a blue tote bag, discovered by the officers during their search of the vicinity, present nothing for review here because this item was never marked as an exhibit at trial or tendered into evidence. Further, the record shows that the testimony concerning this tote bag came as the result of questioning by defense counsel and was not elicited by the State. See generally Perryman v. State, 244 Ga. 720 (2) ( 261 S.E.2d 588) (1979). Appellant's allegations of error present no ground for reversal.

Judgment affirmed. Banke, C. J., and Benham, J., concur.

DECIDED FEBRUARY 13, 1985.


Summaries of

Walker v. State

Court of Appeals of Georgia
Feb 13, 1985
326 S.E.2d 833 (Ga. Ct. App. 1985)
Case details for

Walker v. State

Case Details

Full title:WALKER v. THE STATE

Court:Court of Appeals of Georgia

Date published: Feb 13, 1985

Citations

326 S.E.2d 833 (Ga. Ct. App. 1985)
326 S.E.2d 833

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