Case ID: ga-app_188/html/0701-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

77452.
    RAGIN v. THE STATE.
    (373 SE2d 856)
    Decided October 5, 1988.
    
      Davis Cohen, for appellant.
    
      Glenn Thomas, Jr., District Attorney, Richard H. Taylor, Assistant District Attorney, for appellee.
   Pope, Judge.

Appellant was arrested for trafficking in cocaine after a search of the car he was driving uncovered 8.15 pounds of cocaine. Following a hearing, the trial court set bail in the amount of $300,000, which appellant contends was excessive. We disagree and find that the trial court did not abuse its discretion in setting bail in the amount of $300,000. Accord Sirmons v. State, 243 Ga. 664 (256 SE2d 350) (1979); Reid v. Perkerson, 207 Ga. 27 (4) (60 SE2d 151) (1950); see also OCGA § 17-6-1 (a) & (f). See generally Lathan v. State, 188 Ga. App. 439 (373 SE2d 388) (1988).

Judgment affirmed.

McMurray, P. J., and Benham, J., concur.