Official Code of Georgia Annotated

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

16-4-7. Criminal solicitation.

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(a)
A person commits the offense of criminal solicitation when, with intent that another person engage in conduct constituting a felony, he solicits, requests, commands, importunes, or otherwise attempts to cause the other person to engage in such conduct.#
(b)
A person convicted of the offense of criminal solicitation to commit a felony shall be punished by imprisonment for not less than one nor more than three years. A person convicted of the offense of criminal solicitation to commit a crime punishable by death or by life imprisonment shall be punished by imprisonment for not less than one nor more than five years.#
(c)
It is no defense to a prosecution for criminal solicitation that the person solicited could not be guilty of the crime solicited.#
(d)
The provisions of subsections (a) through (c) of this Code section are cumulative and shall not supersede any other penal law of this state.#

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, §§ 26-1007, 26-1008, 26-1009, enacted by Ga. L. 1978, p. 903, § 1.

For article surveying developments in Georgia constitutional law from mid-1980 through mid-1981, see 33 Mercer L. Rev. 51 (1981).

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