Smith v. State

Summary

The Supreme Court of Georgia affirmed Smith's felony‑murder convictions, holding that the trial court correctly excluded his lay testimony about a PTSD diagnosis because Rule 803(4) does not cover medical diagnoses, and that any error in admitting impeachment evidence of a prior military charge was harmless. The Court applied an abuse‑of‑discretion standard to the evidentiary rulings and a harmless‑error analysis to the impeachment issue.