Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 16. CRIMES AND OFFENSES · Chapter 4. CRIMINAL ATTEMPT, CONSPIRACY, AND SOLICITATION

16-4-4. Impossibility as a defense.

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It is no defense to a charge of criminal attempt that the crime the accused is charged with attempting was, under the attendant circumstances, factually or legally impossible of commission if such crime could have been committed had the attendant circumstances been as the accused believed them to be.

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, § 26-1002, enacted by Ga. L. 1968, p. 1249, § 1.

For article, ‘‘A Comprehensive Analysis of Georgia RICO,’’ see 9 Ga. St. U. L. Rev. 537 (1993).

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