Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 16. CRIMES AND OFFENSES · Chapter 2. CRIMINAL LIABILITY · Article 1. CULPABILITY

16-2-6. Intention a question of fact.

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A person will not be presumed to act with criminal intention but the trier of facts may find such intention upon consideration of the words, conduct, demeanor, motive, and all other circumstances connected with the act for which the accused is prosecuted.

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. 779; Code 1863, § 4189; Code 1868, § 4228; Code 1873, § 4298; Code 1882, § 4293; Penal Code 1895, § 32; Penal Code 1910, § 32; Code 1933, § 26-202; Code 1933, § 26-605, enacted by Ga. L. 1968, p. 1249, § 1.

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