379 S.E.2d 227 | Ga. Ct. App. | 1989
Appellant was convicted of burglary and criminal damage to property in the second degree. He appeals from the judgments of conviction and sentences entered by the trial court on the jury’s verdicts.
1. Appellant enumerates the general grounds, urging that the evidence, which was entirely circumstantial, was not sufficient to exclude all other reasonable hypotheses save that of his guilt.
“ ‘To warrant a conviction on circumstantial evidence, the proved facts shall not only be consistent with guilt but shall exclude every other reasonable hypothesis save that of guilt of the accused. [Cit.]
2. The State’s expert witness in forensic serology was allowed to testify as to the frequency with which a certain blood type appears in the general population. This evidence was properly admitted. Evans v. State, supra at 12 (2).
3. The trial court did not err in admitting evidence of prior difficulties between appellant and the victim. “ ‘On a trial of an indictment for [criminal damage to property], it is not error to admit evidence showing that feelings of anger or dislike existed on the part of the defendant toward the owner of the property.’ [Cit.] . . . The evidence objected to in the case sub judice was of actions and words of the defendant toward the property owner and therefore admissible to show the ‘feelings’ of the defendant toward such property owner.” Wright v. State, 113 Ga. App. 436, 437 (1) (148 SE2d 333) (1966). See also Wilson v. State, 171 Ga. App. 120 (1) (318 SE2d 705) (1984).
Judgments affirmed.