Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 16. CRIMES AND OFFENSES · Chapter 3. DEFENSES TO CRIMINAL PROSECUTIONS · Article 1. RESPONSIBILITY

16-3-5. Mistake of fact.

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A person shall not be found guilty of a crime if the act or omission to act constituting the crime was induced by a misapprehension of fact which, if true, would have justified the act or omission.

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.

Code 1933, § 26-705, enacted by Ga. L. 1968, p. 1249, § 1; Ga. L. 1969, p. 857, § 3.

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