Supreme Court of Georgia
McCord v. the State.
March 4, 2019825 S.E.2d 122
Summary
The Supreme Court of Georgia affirmed McCord's convictions for malice murder, feticide, and tampering with evidence. It held that statements made by a witness to the first responding officer were nontestimonial because their primary purpose was to assist police in addressing an ongoing emergency, and that statements to a second officer were harmless even if testimonial because they were cumulative. The court also upheld admission of the statements under the excited-utterance hearsay exception and concluded that any error concerning statements to another witness was harmless.