Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 17. CRIMINAL PROCEDURE · Chapter 7. PRETRIAL PROCEEDINGS · Article 6. DEMURRERS, MOTIONS, AND SPECIAL PLEAS AND EXCEPTIONS · Part 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS

17-7-112. Plea of misnomer.

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A plea of misnomer should state the true name of the accused person, that he had never been known by any other name than that, and that he was not known and called by the name which was contained in the indictment or accusation.

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

Penal Code 1895, § 954; Penal Code 1910, § 979; Code 1933, § 27-1505.

Other notes

History of Code section.: This Code section is derived from the decisions in Wilson v. State, 69 Ga. 224 (1882) and Wiggins v. State, 80 Ga. 468, 5 S.E. 503 (1888).

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