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

16-10-96. Impersonating another in the course of an action, proceeding, or prosecution.

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Any person who shall falsely represent or impersonate another and in such assumed character answer as a witness to interrogatories or do any other act in the course of any action, proceeding, or prosecution or in any other way, matter, or thing, whereby the person so impersonated or represented, or any other person, might suffer damage, loss, or injury shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by confinement for not less than one year nor more than five years.

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. 822; Code 1863, § 4464; Code 1868, § 4508; Code 1873, § 4596; Code 1882, § 4596; Penal Code 1895, § 666; Penal Code 1910, § 711; Code 1933, § 38-9901.

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