Appellant was indicted and tried for trafficking in cocaine. The] jury returned a guilty verdict and he appeals.
Acting on information provided by a detective in the Atlanta po-| lice department that cocaine was being stored for distribution in At-, lanta in a motel room in Clayton County, Clayton County narcotics] agents began surveillance of Room 219 of the Travel Lodge in thalj county. Concurrently, an agent obtained a search warrant for Roor 219 based on information provided by the Atlanta detective that reliable and confidential informant had been in Room 219 within the past 48 hours; that four males and a female at the motel were in-| volved in cocaine distribution; and that the room was registered to “Michelle,” who was from the Miami area and drove a white car wit! a Florida prestige tag. On surveillance, the officers observed several men getting out of a Toyota and going into Room 203. Shortly there! after, one of the men left Room 203 and entered Room 219. He wal later identified as Preston Bowe. The search warrant was executed! and Michelle Walker and Preston Bowe were found in Room 219 witlj a box of nine millimeter bullets and $1,838 in cash secreted ill Walker’s purse. However, no cocaine was discovered. The agent! maintained a watch on Room 203 and discovered that the room wal registered to Chris Bowe, Preston’s brother, whom he denied know|
1. Appellant enumerates as error the trial court’s denial of his motion to suppress because the affidavit supporting the search warrant was insufficient. Appellant argues that the Clayton County agent did not verify the information recited in the affidavit nor did the Atlanta detective or his informant appear before the magistrate; therefore, there was no probable cause to justify the issuance of the search warrant. The affidavit indicated that the information was obtained by a detective of the narcotics unit of the Atlanta Bureau of Police Services who acquired the tip from a “known confidential and. reliable informant” who had “provided truthful and accurate information within the past three months” leading to arrests and seizures of controlled substances. The detective was investigating a fire bombing and a drug related homicide involving someone known only as “Red,” and the informant indicated that the cocaine was being stored in Room [219 for “Red.” The detective visited the motel and confirmed that [Walker was registered and had given a Miami address and a fictitious [driver’s license number. “ ‘Observations by fellow officers of the Government engaged in a common investigation are plainly a reliable ba-fcis for a warrant applied for by one of their number.’ [Cits.]”
Mitchell
v.
State,
2. In his second and third enumerations of error, appellant con-ends the trial court erred in failing to grant his motions for a diected verdict at the close of the State’s case and at the close of ap-[ellant’s case, respectively, as the evidence demonstrated only his
3. Appellant also enumerates as error the admission of a videotape of the surveillance of the Travel Lodge on the day of the arrests inasmuch as the State failed to produce the tape pursuant to appellant’s discovery motions. According to an agent involved in the surveillance, the videotape revealed that after their arrests and while stil at the motel, appellant and the co-defendants were asked if they hat any knowledge of the money and the weapons, and with the exceptior of Preston Bowe, all denied knowledge. Specifically, appellant con tends that the State failed to produce a copy of appellant’s oral state ment pursuant to OCGA § 17-7-210 (c) and (e), and the State did no produce the videotape pursuant to his motion to examine all “physi cal evidence in the possession or under the control of the District At torney.” However, the record contains neither a motion to produc under OCGA § 17-7-210 filed on appellant’s behalf nor appellant’ blanket motion. At trial, appellant joined the co-defendants in an ob jection to the tape because the State failed to produce, in response tl co-defendants’ requests prior to trial, “any recorded statement” or tl allow the viewing of physical evidence. I
Two of the limited methods by which a criminal defendant mal obtain discovery are an OCGA § 24-10-26 notice to produce documeil tary evidence in the possession of the State and a request pursuant tl OCGA § 17-7-210 for the defendant’s statement given while in polil
At trial, the prosecutor stated to the court that he furnished defense counsel with an excerpt from a DEA report which recited that appellant and the co-defendants denied knowledge of the cocaine, guns and money, and his pronouncement was not disputed by defense counsel. He maintained that he was not required to mention or produce the videotape. We can find no authority for the contention that the videotape should have been produced under OCGA § 17-7-210, which requires in subsections (b) and (c), that the prosecution comply with a defendant’s timely request’ for a written copy of his oral statement. There is no evidence that the statement provided by the prose-was not sufficient under OCGA § 17-7-210, and the statement is lot included in the record on appeal for our review. It appears, there-ore, that the trial court did not abuse its discretion in admitting the ddeotape. See
Lewis v. State,
4. Appellant next contends the trial court erred in admitting a jonding receipt which was discovered in Michelle Walker’s purse dur-ng the search. The receipt showed that approximately one month lefore the arrests in the instant case Preston Bowe posted a bond on ippellant’s behalf stemming from unspecified charges. The State ¡ought to introduce the receipt during its case in chief, contending hat the receipt demonstrated further, the connection between appel-ant and Preston Bowe. Appellant contends that the receipt tended to [how that he had been incarcerated and put his character in issue, rhe receipt was admitted at the close of all of the evidence, and at pat juncture, Preston Bowe had already testified that while in At-bnta to sell drugs on the date indicated on the receipt, he posted ippellant’s bond. Counsel for appellant renewed his objection to the pceipt but did not object to Bowe’s subsequent testimony. We again
5. Appellant argues that the trial court erred in failing to allow appellant to open and conclude argument to the jury because he offered no evidence on his own behalf and did not cross-examine co-defendants’ witnesses. The transcript reveals that no timely objection was made to the order of closing argument, and “[objections not raised at trial cannot be raised for the first time on appeal, as they are deemed waived. [Cit.]”
Fancher v. State,
6. Finally, appellee enumerates as error two charges given to the jury. However, the transcript demonstrates that upon the trial court’s direct inquiry as to whether there were any objections to the charge, counsel for a co-defendant stated, “None other than our previous standard objection, Your Honor.” The trial court then asked counsel for appellant, and he replied, “Likewise, sir.” The only other objection was made before the charge was given, at which time co-defendant’s counsel argued that the State’s requests to charge were untimely. Appellant’s counsel joined in the objection, and it was sustained. Co-defendant’s counsel stated that otherwise, he had no objections to the charge. “ ‘In the absence of (an objection ór) a reservation in response to a direct inquiry by the trial court [for objections to jury charges], appellant has waived the objection^] he now makes.’ [Cit.]”
Hills v. State,
Judgment affirmed.
