Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 17. CRIMINAL PROCEDURE · Chapter 13. CRIMINAL EXTRADITION · Article 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS

17-13-4. Arrest and delivery to authorities of fugitive from foreign country.

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Whenever a fugitive from justice from a foreign country is found within this state, and by the treaty stipulations of the United States the person is to be surrendered to the authorities of the foreign country upon requisition from the proper officers, the Governor, by his warrant, shall cause him to be arrested and delivered over to such authorities.

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, § 60; Code 1868, § 56; Code 1873, § 53; Code 1882, § 53; Penal Code 1895, § 1270; Penal Code 1910, § 1352; Code 1933, § 44-301.

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