GA 16-11-66 - GA 16-11-66

Conversations in Furtherance of Crime One-party consent requirement renders exception constitutional. - Requirement of consent of one party ensures that overhearing by third parties is by divulgence of one party to conversation, which is constitutionally permissible, and not by surreptitious interception unbeknownst to any party to conversation, which is constitutionally impermissible. Goodwin v. State, 154 Ga. App. 46 , 267 S.E.2d 488 (1980). Applicability to face-to-face oral communication. - One-party consent provision of former Code 1933, § 26-3006 (see now O.C.G.A. § 16-11-66 ) was applicable to face-to-face oral communication. Orkin v. State, 236 Ga. 176 , 223 S.E.2d 61 (1976); Brooks v. State, 141 Ga. App. 725 , 234 S.E.2d 541 (1977). Face-to-face communications are included in the ...