after the gun fired during the struggle and continued this charade while in the prosecutor’s comment that defendant failed to offer evidence in his own defense was not an inappropriate comment on defendant’s failure to testify but was directed at defense counsel’s failure to explain the State’s evidence); Dingier, 293 Ga. App. at 31 (3) (same). 57 Culler v. State, 277 Ga. 717, 721 (5) (594 SE2d 631) (2004); accord Spencer v. State, 328 Ga. App. 1, 5 (3) (761 SE2d 464) (2014); see OCGA § 24-6-611 (c) (“When a party calls a hostile witness, an adverse party, or a witness identified with an adverse party, interrogation may be by leading questions.”). 58 Fugate v. State, 263 Ga. 260, 265 (10) (431 SE2d 104) (1993); accord Spencer, 328 Ga. App. at 5 (3). 59 See Fugate, 263 Ga. at 265 (10) (<HOLDING>); Spencer, 328 Ga. App. at 5 (3) (same). 60
holding district court did not abuse its discretion by allowing government to ask leading questions of eightyearold witness reluctant to testify regarding sexual abuse holding that trial court properly barred certain questions about witness who was in federal witness protection program holding that the state could ask leading questions of its witness a codefendant who had entered a plea after witness initially refused to answer questions in violation of her plea agreement holding that government could not impeach witness with prior statement because he refused to answer any questions and thus gave no testimony in court with which the prior statement could be judged to be inconsistent holding that it is improper to ask a witness to comment on the credibility of another witness