Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 17. CRIMINAL PROCEDURE · Chapter 7. PRETRIAL PROCEEDINGS · Article 6. DEMURRERS, MOTIONS, AND SPECIAL PLEAS AND EXCEPTIONS · Part 3. CHANGE OF VENUE

17-7-151. Transfer upon change of venue of evidence, list of witnesses, and papers; issuance of subpoenas to witnesses and others by clerk of court selected to try case.

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Whenever a change of venue is made, the clerk of the court from which the case has been transferred shall send to the court to which the case has been transferred a transcript of the order for the change of venue, the evidence before the court of inquiry, a list of all the witnesses subpoenaed in the case, and all other papers connected with the case. The clerk of the court selected to try the case shall issue subpoenas to the witnesses and such others as may be applied for by either party.

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

Ga. L. 1895, p. 70, § 4; Penal Code 1895, § 940; Penal Code 1910, § 965; Code 1933, § 27-1202; Code 1933, § 27-1203, enacted by Ga. L. 1972, p. 536, § 1.

Cross references

Transfer of prisoner upon change of venue, § 42-4-11.

Other notes

U.S. Code.: Transfer of trials, Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, Rule 21(c).

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