Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 16. CRIMES AND OFFENSES · Chapter 2. CRIMINAL LIABILITY · Article 2. PARTIES TO CRIMES

16-2-21. Prosecution of parties who did not directly commit the crime.

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Any party to a crime who did not directly commit the crime may be indicted, tried, convicted, and punished for commission of the crime upon proof that the crime was committed and that he was a party thereto, although the person claimed to have directly committed the crime has not been prosecuted or convicted, has been convicted of a different crime or degree of crime, or is not amenable to justice or has been acquitted.

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

Code 1933, § 26-802, enacted by Ga. L. 1968, p. 1249, § 1.

Law reviews

For note discussing organized crime in Georgia with respect to the application of state gambling laws, and suggesting proposals for combatting organized crime, see 7 Ga. St. B. J. 124 (1970).

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