Court Opinion

ID: 9589768
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 23:48:30.258818+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:36:55.776451
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Hill, Justice,
concurring specially.
The record of defendant’s 1974 trial lists A. R. Costlow as a witness for the state and Dewey Costlow on the jury list. It was incumbent upon defense counsel knowing these two facts to discover on voir dire the *402relationship between the two and to move for a mistrial under Code Ann. § 59-804 (4) upon learning of Deputy Sheriff Costlow’s role as a "prosecutor,” if he was a prosecutor. The defendant cannot sit silent at trial hoping for a favorable verdict and, when unsuccessful, move for a new trial on the ground that a juror should have been struck for cause. Joyner v. State, 208 Ga. 435 (2) (67 SE2d 221) (1951).
I am authorized to state that Justice Ingram joins in this special concurrence.