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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 17. CRIMINAL PROCEDURE · Chapter 4. ARREST OF PERSONS · Article 3. WARRANTS FOR ARREST

17-4-42. Issuance of special warrants for arrest; treatment of special warrants as general arrest warrants.

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  1. No judicial officer except a judge of the superior court shall issue a special warrant for arrest returnable only before himself; nor shall any superior court judge issue such warrant outside of his own judicial circuit. If issued outside the judicial circuit, the warrant shall be treated as a general arrest warrant.

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, § 4598; Code 1868, § 4620; Code 1873, § 4717; Code 1882, § 4717; Penal Code 1895, § 886; Penal Code 1910, § 907; Code 1933, § 27-106.

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