Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 17. CRIMINAL PROCEDURE · Chapter 13. CRIMINAL EXTRADITION · Article 2. UNIFORM CRIMINAL EXTRADITION ACT

17-13-31. Duty of district attorney to answer and defend habeas corpus action.

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The district attorney shall answer and defend any habeas corpus action brought under this article, which action contests the issuance, execution, or validity of a Governor’s warrant of arrest, unless the Governor shall direct the Attorney General to answer and defend the habeas corpus action.

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. 1979, p. 412, § 1.

Cross references

Habeas corpus generally, T. 9, C. 14.

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