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Title 16. CRIMES AND OFFENSES · Chapter 10. OFFENSES AGAINST PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION · Article 5. OFFENSES RELATED TO JUDICIAL AND OTHER PROCEEDINGS

16-10-90. Compounding a crime.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

  1. (a)

    A person commits the offense of compounding a crime when, after institution of criminal proceedings and without leave of the court or of the prosecuting attorney of the court where the criminal proceedings are pending, he accepts or agrees to accept any benefit in consideration of a promise, express or implied, not to prosecute or aid in the prosecution of a criminal offense.#

  2. (b)

    A person convicted of the offense of compounding a crime which is a felony shall be punished by a fine of not more than $1,000.00 or by imprisonment for not less than one nor more than five years, or both. A person convicted of the offense of compounding a crime which is a misdemeanor is guilty of a misdemeanor.#

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Laws 1833, Cobb’s 1851 Digest, p. 808; Code 1863, § 4385; Code 1868, § 4423; Code 1873, § 4491; Code 1882, § 4491; Penal Code 1895, § 323; Penal Code 1910, § 328; Code 1933, § 26-4603; Code 1933, § 26-2504, enacted by Ga. L. 1968, p. 1249, § 1.

Cross references

Agreements relating to compensation of person injured by tort which constitutes a crime, § 51-11-20.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

Text read from t16-ch7-11-(v14a)-2018-pdf.pdf, Volume V14A, 2018 edition, page 721; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 5985d65f23ef.