JOHNSON v. STATE

46049.

123 Ga. App. 857 (1971)

182 S.E.2d 701

JOHNSON v. THE STATE.

Court of Appeals of Georgia.

Decided May 5, 1971.

Rehearing Denied June 4, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Louis H. Mitchell, for appellant.

Eugene Hardwick Polleys, Jr., District Attorney, for appellee.


JORDAN, Presiding Judge.

The defendant appeals a conviction and sentence for burglary. Held:

1. The use of the word "fired" by the prosecutor in his opening statement affords no basis for the grant of a mistrial on the ground that the prosecutor deliberately put the accused's character in evidence. In the colloquial sense as here used it merely discloses that the victim, and not the accused, had terminated the accused's employment a short time before...

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