Court Opinion

ID: 9610892
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 03:48:30.061731+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:03:06.107273
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On Motion for Rehearing.
By motion for rehearing the state contends that the defendant failed either to request a charge on the burden of proof or to make a proper objection.
The Reed case, 130 Ga. App. 659, 663 (204 SE2d 335), held: "The trial court committed prejudicial error in failing to instruct the jury that the state had the burden of proof on the question of entrapment.” The decision was predicated on the failure by charge to provide the jury with proper guidelines. See Green v. State, 230 Ga. 756, 759 (2) (199 SE2d 199). Any language in the Reed case implying that an objection was therefore necessary must be considered as obiter dictum. See Code Ann. § 70-207 (Ga. L. 1965, pp. 18, 31; 1966, pp. 493, 498; 1968, pp. 1072, 1078).

Motion for rehearing denied.