Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 17. CRIMINAL PROCEDURE · Chapter 11. ASSESSMENT AND PAYMENT OF COSTS OF CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS · Article 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS

17-11-3. Liability of defendant for costs of inquest.

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Any person convicted of murder or manslaughter in a case where an inquest has been held concerning the cause of death of the victim shall be charged for the costs of the inquest as part of the costs of prosecution.

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.

Orig. Code 1863, § 572; Code 1868, § 636; Code 1873, § 595; Code 1882, § 595; Penal Code 1895, § 1080; Penal Code 1910, § 1107; Code 1933, § 27-2803.

For article on whether one’s property is forfeited after a conviction based on a nolo contendere plea, see 13 Ga. L. Rev. 723 (1979).

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