Official Code of Georgia Annotated

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

16-10-91. Embracery.

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

(a)
A person commits the offense of embracery when he:#
1. (1)
  With intent to influence a person summoned or serving as a juror, communicates with him otherwise than is authorized by law in an attempt to influence his action as a juror; or#
2. (2)
  Summoned as a juror, accepts anything of value offered to him with the understanding that it is given with the intent of influencing his action as a juror.#
(b)
A person convicted of the offense of embracery 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.#

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. 809; Code 1863, § 4390; Code 1868, § 4431; Code 1873, § 4503; Code 1882, § 4503; Penal Code 1895, § 328; Penal Code 1910, § 333; Code 1933, § 26-4702; Code 1933, § 26-2407, enacted by Ga. L. 1968, p. 1249, § 1.

Cross references

Juries, § 15-12-1.

Law reviews

For annual survey of criminal law, see 38 Mercer L. Rev. 129 (1986).

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