Court Opinion

ID: 9849322
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-24 04:38:23.837743+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:19:17.096993
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Quillian, Chief Judge,
dissenting.
While the majority’s reasons and reasoning are excellent, I cannot reconcile their opinion with the holdings of this Court interpreting another discovery statute which also sets out an exclusionary rule and which reach a result that stare decisis dictates we must follow.
Code Ann. § 27-1403 (Cobb, 834, Ga. L. 1966, pp. 430, 431) bars *248the testimony of a prosecution witness if the witness’ name has not been supplied to the defendant prior to trial after proper demand. However, we have held that the proper remedy for a violation thereof is not a defense motion for exclusion of the testimony but a motion for continuance. See e.g. Hunnicutt v. State, 135 Ga. App. 774 (1) (219 SE2d 22); Savage v. State, 152 Ga. App. 392 (4) (263 SE2d 218).
Since I am constrained to follow prior decisional law, I therefore respectfully dissent.
I am authorized to state that Presiding Judge Deen, Presiding Judge McMurray, and Judge Sognier join in this dissent.