98 Ga. App. 159 - Simmons v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

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1. “This evidence could have no relevancy to any of the issues in the case unless it was introduced for the purpose of showing an admission of guilt by the defendant, since the only issues in a bastardy proceeding are paternity and the failure of the defendant to give the bond or the security required ( Curry v. State, 97 Ga. App. 702 (1), ( 104 SE2d 148 )), and this evidence could not have been illustrative of either of these issues. However, it was not admissible in evidence as an admission of guilt since it appears therefrom that, if it was such, it was made with a view to compromise or to effect a postponement of the case and was, therefore, not made freely and voluntarily by the defendant. Code § 38-408. Smith v. State, 41 Ga. App. 341 ( 152 SE 916 ).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 133 Ga. App. 652 - Jester v. State