GA 17-4-25 - GA 17-4-25

JUDICIAL DECISIONS Officer must see enough to convince oneself and judge of crime. - What the officer sees or apprehends through the officer's senses must be sufficient to convince the officer as a fact that a violation exists, and to enable the judge when challenge is made to agree that such conviction is justified by what the observer has seen, heard, or otherwise ascertained. Harris v. State, 128 Ga. App. 22 , 195 S.E.2d 262 (1973). Statements made outside of county of crime admissible. - Valid statements by a defendant should not be rejected merely because the statements were obtained in a county other than that where the offenses were committed. Echols v. State, 231 Ga. 633 , 203 S.E.2d 165 (1974). No bail in lieu of return of prisoner to other county. - Officials of a county in which...