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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 17. CRIMINAL PROCEDURE · Chapter 3. LIMITATIONS ON PROSECUTION

17-3-2. Periods excluded.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

  1. The period within which a prosecution must be commenced under Code Section 17-3-1 or other applicable statute does not include any period in which:

  2. (1)

    The accused is not usually and publicly a resident within this state;#

  3. (2)

    The person committing the crime is unknown or the crime is unknown;#

  4. (3)

    The accused is a government officer or employee and the crime charged is theft by conversion of public property while such an officer or employee; or#

  5. (4)

    The accused is a guardian or trustee and the crime charged is theft by conversion of property of the ward or beneficiary.#

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

Code 1933, § 26-503, enacted by Ga. L. 1968, p. 1249, § 1; Ga. L. 1969, p. 857, § 17.

Law reviews

For annual survey of death penalty decisions, see 57 Mercer L. Rev. 139 (2005); 58 Mercer L. Rev. 111 (2006).

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

Text read from t17-(v15)-2020-pdf.pdf, Volume V15, 2020 edition, page 69; merge action: annotated; file SHA-256 0b0d45f9c609.