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title: Title 16, Chapter 3. Defenses to Criminal Prosecutions
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heading: DEFENSES TO CRIMINAL PROSECUTIONS
title_heading: CRIMES AND OFFENSES
section_count: 20
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# Title 16, Chapter 3. Defenses to Criminal Prosecutions

Title 16. Crimes and Offenses

20 sections. Each line is `citation, catchline, status, URL`; the text of every section, in order, is at https://georgiacommons.org/code/16-3.md?full=1 (capped, with a pointer to continue).

- 16-3-1, Minimum age, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/16-3-1.md
- 16-3-2, Mental capacity; insanity, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/16-3-2.md
- 16-3-3, Delusional compulsion, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/16-3-3.md
- 16-3-4, Intoxication, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/16-3-4.md
- 16-3-5, Mistake of fact, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/16-3-5.md
- 16-3-6, Affirmative defenses to certain sexual crimes, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/16-3-6.md
- 16-3-20, Justification, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/16-3-20.md
- 16-3-21, Use of force in defense of self or others; evidence of belief that force was necessary in murder or manslaughter prosecution, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/16-3-21.md
- 16-3-22, Immunity from criminal liability of persons rendering assistance to law enforcement officers, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/16-3-22.md
- 16-3-22.1, Persons who provide assistance to law enforcement officers or the Division of Family and Children Services when the health and safety of children are adversely affected and threatened, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/16-3-22.1.md
- 16-3-23, Use of force in defense of habitation, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/16-3-23.md
- 16-3-23.1, No duty to retreat prior to use of force in self-defense, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/16-3-23.1.md
- 16-3-24, Use of force in defense of property other than a habitation, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/16-3-24.md
- 16-3-24.1, Habitation and personal property defined, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/16-3-24.1.md
- 16-3-24.2, Immunity from prosecution; exception, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/16-3-24.2.md
- 16-3-25, Entrapment, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/16-3-25.md
- 16-3-26, Coercion, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/16-3-26.md
- 16-3-27, Benefit of clergy, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/16-3-27.md
- 16-3-28, Affirmative defenses, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/16-3-28.md
- 16-3-40, Alibi, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/16-3-40.md