State v. Griffin
| Decision Date | 16 April 1980 |
| Docket Number | 59563,Nos. 59562,s. 59562 |
| Citation | 268 S.E.2d 412,154 Ga.App. 361 |
| Parties | The STATE v. GRIFFIN (two cases). |
| Court | Georgia Court of Appeals |
Benjamin L. Bateman, Dist. Atty., Leland K. Hawks, Asst. Dist. Atty., for appellant.
George C. Floyd, Gilbert J. Murrah, Lee Morgan, Bainbridge, for appellees.
Motion to suppress. A police officer went to a justice of the peace and obtained a warrant to search the premises controlled by Emanuel Hodge as well as the person of Hodge and other persons present on the premises (the other appellants). The detective presented the following facts: The justice of the peace testified that the detective was sworn and gave the additional information that the marijuana had been seen by the informer within the past 30 days and that she (the justice of the peace) did not demand any further information as to the reliability of the informer because the informer was a "peace officer."
The detective testified however, that while his informer was a peace officer (in fact was a police sergeant), that informer was merely relating what he (the sergeant) had been told by an otherwise unidentified informer. There was absolutely no information furnished to the justice of the peace that the ultimate source of the factual predicate for the probable cause to issue the warrant was a wholly unidentified informant whose reliability was never established for the justice of the peace.
While we agree that hearsay and even hearsay upon hearsay may be sufficient to furnish the basis for the issuance of a valid warrant if the magistrate is informed of some of the underlying circumstances supporting the affiant's underlying conclusions and his belief that the informant was credible or his information reliable (United States v. Ventresca, 380 U.S. 102, 108, 85 S.Ct. 741, 745, 13 L.Ed.2d 684), such is not the case here. See Smith v. State, 136 Ga.App. 17, 18-19, 220 S.E.2d 11; Grebe v. State, 125 Ga.App. 873, 189 S.E.2d 698. There must be a substantial basis for crediting such hearsay. Galgano v. State, 147 Ga.App. 284, 285, 248 S.E.2d 548; Smith v. State, supra.
In the case before us, there were no underlying facts or circumstances brought to the attention of...
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