Primas was convicted by a jury and sentenced on two counts each of armed robbery, aggravated assault, and entering an auto, and one count of possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime. The trial itself was recorded and transcribed. Primas contends he has been deprived of effective assistance of counsel both at trial and on appeal because the law does not require that voir dire and opening and closing arguments be reported, making it impossible to determine whether there was error in those proceedings. He does not suggest there was any Primas' present counsel was appointed to represent him on appeal about six and a half months after trial. 1. In defendant's brief, he focuses on voir dire and does not develop a rationale for challenging the opening and dosing arguments, which are statutorily excepted from recordation in OCGA 17-8-5 (a). 2. If there was error in the voir dire, Primas waived it by failing to object at trial. "To raise an issue as to error in the conducting of the voir dire, objection must be made in the trial court to preserve the issue for appeal." 1 Any objection and the court's ruling would have been reported had there been such, as was done when objection was voiced during opening statement. 2 After the jury was selected, Primas' trial counsel expressly stated he had "no challenge to the jury constitution." Primas does not contend his trial counsel was ineffective in any particular manner but only that possible error occurred during voir dire or counsel may have been ineffective, but he will never know because there is no record. He simply argues he "has no idea" if trial counsel was allowed to question the prospective jurors as allowed by law or whether any other legal mistake transpired. But he must show error in order to win a new trial. 3In State v. Graham, 4 which reversed the decision of this Court, 5 the Supreme Court held that a transcript of voir dire is not mandatory in non-capital felony cases, i.e., it is not a part of the proceedings which must be taken down in accordance with what is now OCGA 5-6-41 and 17-8-5. This is so even where the statutory methods for perfecting a record from recollection are unavailable due to lack of participants' recall. 6 Primas does not suggest that something objectionable to him occurred but only that neither trial counsel nor the court could remember what transpired when it became desirable to test the proceedings. Primas admits Graham is on point but urges readoption of this Court's "reasoned opinion which addressed the exact problem which faces appellant herein." That is beyond our power, as "we are constrained to apply the holding of Graham." 7Although Primas blames trial counsel for failing to move for reporting of the entire trial under OCGA 5-6-41, and suggests that if he were not indigent the court would have granted it, he acknowledges that he was not entitled to such a record. 8 No constitutional equal protection deprivation is asserted. If Primas' position is that the Supreme Court's interpretation of the two statutes deprived him of equal protection or due process of law, because he is indigent, his appeal must be to the Supreme Court. Ga. Const. Art. VI, Sec. VI, Par. II (1). Primas' claim that he is unable to prepare an appeal without a complete transcript that includes the voir dire also fails under Graham. 9In sum, a general unspecified hope of reversible error during voir dire does not win a new trial on the ground that a record should have been made so as to accommodate a search for error now buried in unrecorded history 10 A fear that the statutory questions in OCGA 15-12-164 may not have been asked or that the oath may not have been given must be met with the rule that, unless shown otherwise, the trial court is presumed to have followed the law. 11Donald W. Rogers, for appellant. |