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DRANE v. STATE

No. S95A0907.

461 S.E.2d 224 (1995)

265 Ga. 663

DRANE v. The STATE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

September 11, 1995.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David C. Walker, Henderson & Henderson, Richmond Hill, for Charles T. Drane.

Dupont K. Cheney, Dist. Atty., Atlantic Judicial Circuit, Hinesville, Michael J. Bowers, Atty. Gen., Susan V. Boleyn, Sr. Asst. Atty. Gen., Dept. of Law, Richard J. Warren, Asst. Atty. Gen., Atlanta, for the State.

J. Stephen Archer, Asst. Dist. Atty., Hinesville.

FLETCHER, Presiding Justice.

A jury convicted Charles T. Drane of the shooting death of Melissa Wilson.1 Drane challenges the admission into evidence of two statements that his common-law wife Patricia Saunders made to a Georgia Bureau of Investigation agent. We conclude that the trial court properly admitted the statements as an exception to the hearsay rule because there was sufficient evidence of their reliability. We affirm.

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