Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 17. CRIMINAL PROCEDURE · Chapter 7. PRETRIAL PROCEEDINGS · Article 2. COMMITMENT HEARINGS

17-7-29. Commitment of defendant for different offense than stated in warrant.

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A court of inquiry may commit the defendant for a different offense than that stated in the warrant if the evidence requires it.

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, § 6422; Code 1868, § 4646; Code 1873, § 4744; Code 1882, § 4744; Penal Code 1895, § 913; Penal Code 1910, § 938; Code 1933, § 27-408.

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