Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 16. CRIMES AND OFFENSES · Chapter 5. CRIMES AGAINST THE PERSON · Article 3. KIDNAPPING, FALSE IMPRISONMENT, AND RELATED OFFENSES

16-5-43. Malicious confinement of sane person in an asylum.

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A person who maliciously causes the confinement of a sane person, knowing such person to be sane, in any asylum, public or private, shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by imprisonment for not less than one nor more than ten years.

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

Ga. L. 1890-91, p. 237, § 4; Penal Code 1895, § 560; Penal Code 1910, § 575; Code 1933, § 26-1504; Code 1933, § 26-1310, enacted by Ga. L. 1968, p. 1249, § 1.

Cross references

Procedures for detaining persons in facilities for treatment of mental illness, § 37-3-81 et seq. Petition for writ of habeas corpus to question cause and legality of detention in facility for treatment of mental illness, § 37-3-148. Civil action for false arrest, false imprisonment, and malicious prosecution, T. 51, Ch. 7.

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