GA 17-16-7 - GA 17-16-7

JUDICIAL DECISIONS Service of statements of witnesses not required. - Language of O.C.G.A. § 17-16-7 that statements of witnesses be produced does not require that such statements be furnished or served upon the defendant. Lawson v. State, 224 Ga. App. 645 , 481 S.E.2d 856 (1997). Failure of the state to produce oral statements. - Failure of the state to produce oral and unrecorded statements made by the defendant's brother to the police did not violate the state's duty under O.C.G.A. § 17-16-7 . Grabowski v. State, 234 Ga. App. 222 , 507 S.E.2d 472 (1998). Because there can be no "possession, custody, or control" of an oral statement, the state had no obligation to produce a statement which had been neither recorded nor committed to writing. Cox v. State, 242 Ga. App. 334 , 528 S.E.2d 871...