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Title 16. CRIMES AND OFFENSES · Chapter 5. CRIMES AGAINST THE PERSON · Article 1. HOMICIDE

16-5-4. Time elapsed between injury and death.

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  1. In order to be a homicide punishable under this article, death need not have occurred within a year and a day from the date of the injury alleged to have caused such death.

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

Code 1981, § 16-5-4, enacted by Ga. L. 1991, p. 719, § 1.

Editor's notes

Ga. L. 1991, p. 719, § 2, not codified by General Assembly, provides: ‘‘It is the intent of this Act to make statutory the ruling of the Supreme Court of Georgia that the year and a day rule referred to herein is not the law of Georgia.’’

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Text read from t16-ch1-6-(v14)-2019-pdf.pdf, Volume V14, 2019 edition, page 603; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 7e331f0ca7d3.