Court Opinion

ID: 9592738
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Date Created: 2023-08-22 00:16:39.222717+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:01:17.665332
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Beasley, Judge,
concurring specially.
I concur in the dissent to the extent that the witness’ opinion [that another witness believed the victim was inadmissible. Credibility lis a matter for the jury itself, and it does not need the opinion of [others on this subject to aid it in finding this fact. Thus it is not the sort of opinion admissible by virtue of OCGA § 24-9-65. Someone slse’s opinion about another’s opinion of credibility of yet a third person is an even more remote subject of inquiry and has no discernible validity in establishing the credibility of the victim-witness.
Nevertheless, even though the mother’s opinion was itself irrelevant, the evidence was harmless as cumulative, since it was, by inference if not otherwise, clear from the mother’s testimony as a State’s witness and from her actions in response to her child’s accusations, |;hat she accepted as true what the child said. “Evidence which is cu-rulative of other legally admissible evidence of the same fact, renders jiarmless admission of incompetent evidence. [Cits.]” Lynn v. State, [81 Ga. App. 461, 464 (2) (352 SE2d 602) (1987).
I am authorized to state that Judge Andrews joins in this special loncurrence.