Opinion
56858.
SUBMITTED NOVEMBER 6, 1978.
DECIDED DECEMBER 5, 1978.
Burglary. Fulton Superior Court. Before Judge Langford.
Eugene A. Deal, for appellant.
Lewis R. Slaton, District Attorney, Joseph J. Drolet, H. Allen Moye, R. David Petersen, Assistant District Attorneys, for appellee.
The defendant appeals his burglary conviction. Held:
1. The evidence was sufficient to sustain the verdict and it was not error to overrule the defendant's motion for directed verdict of acquittal.
2. It is urged that certain questions propounded to a prosecution witness tended to elicit impermissible comment on the defendant's right to remain silent. However, no objection was interposed to such testimony. Hence, this ground shows no reversible error. Tiller v. State, 238 Ga. 67(1) ( 230 S.E.2d 874); Alderman v. State, 241 Ga. 496, 504 ( 246 S.E.2d 642); Paschal v. State, 139 Ga. App. 842, 844 ( 229 S.E.2d 795).
3. After the verdict, at the request of counsel for defendant, the jury was polled. Although no request was made as to the form of the question asked the jury, error is now assigned on the failure to inquire of the jury "Was it [the juror's verdict] freely and voluntarily made?"
The trial judge asked "Was this your verdict in the jury room?" and "Is this now your verdict?" Those questions "meet the minimum requirements of the defendant's right to a poll of the jurors." Burnett v. State, 240 Ga. 681, 688 (11) ( 242 S.E.2d 79). It has been further held by the Supreme Court that having asked the mandatory questions, "[i]t was not error to refuse to ask each juror the additional question of whether the verdict was `voluntarily agreed upon.'" Hudson v. State, 237 Ga. 241 (3) ( 227 S.E.2d 257).
Our Supreme Court has not chosen to adopt any of the reasoning found in Ponder v. State, 11 Ga. App. 60 ( 74 S.E. 715). The last ground therefore is without merit.
Judgment affirmed. Webb and McMurray, JJ., concur.