17-2-3. Jurisdiction and venue as to crimes committed on boundary lines between this state and other states.

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This state claims jurisdiction of an offense committed on any of her boundary lines with other states for the county bordering on that part of the line where the offense was committed and, if doubtful as to which of two counties as set forth in subsection (g) of Code Section 17-2-2, for either county, and will proceed to arrest, indict, try, and punish unless the other state makes a demand for the accused person as a fugitive from justice, in which event the progress of the case shall be suspended by order of the Governor until the question of jurisdiction is settled.

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

Orig. Code 1863, § 41; Code 1868, § 39; Code 1873, § 37; Code 1882, § 37; Penal Code 1895, § 25; Penal Code 1910, § 25; Code 1933, § 27-1107.

Law reviews

For comment, ‘‘The Guiding Hand of Counsel: Effective Representation for Indigent Defendants in the Cordele Judicial Circuit,’’ see 66 Mercer L. Rev. 781 (2015).

Other notes

U.S. Code.: Venue, Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, Rule 18.

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