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

17-7-152. Subsequent changes of venue.

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If, on motion, the judge presiding in the court to which a case has been transferred is satisfied that a fair and impartial jury cannot be obtained therein, he shall, in the manner prescribed in subsection (a) of Code Section 17-7-150, transfer the case to some other county where a fair and impartial jury can be obtained.

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, § 5; Penal Code 1895, § 941; Penal Code 1910, § 966; Code 1933, § 27-1203; Code 1933, § 27-1204, enacted by Ga. L. 1972, p. 536, § 1.

Other notes

U.S. Code.: Transfer of trials because of prejudice against defendant, and annotations pertaining thereto, Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, Rule 21(a).

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