Supreme Court of Georgia
Taylor v. the State.
March 5, 2018811 S.E.2d 286
Summary
The court affirmed Taylor's felony-murder conviction and life sentence, rejecting challenges to the sufficiency of the evidence, the admission of police interrogation evidence, a denied mistrial, testimony about toxicology results, and a jailhouse statement. The court held that Taylor failed to preserve specific objections to the interrogation recording, the neighbor's testimony did not improperly place character in issue, the toxicology results were used only as a basis for expert opinion, and Taylor's jailhouse admission was volunteered rather than elicited through interrogation.