Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 16. CRIMES AND OFFENSES · Chapter 11. OFFENSES AGAINST PUBLIC ORDER AND SAFETY · Article 2. OFFENSES AGAINST PUBLIC ORDER

16-11-32. Affray.

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(a)
An affray is the fighting by two or more persons in some public place to the disturbance of the public tranquility.#
(b)
A person who commits the offense of affray 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. 811; Code 1863, § 4401; Ga. L. 1865-66, p. 233, § 2; Code 1868, § 4442; Code 1873, § 4515; Code 1882, § 4515; Penal Code 1895, § 355; Penal Code 1910, § 361; Code 1933, § 26-5303; Code 1933, § 26-2603, enacted by Ga. L. 1968, p. 1249, § 1.

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