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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

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

17-7-30. Form of commitment.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

  1. The following form, or one in substance the same, shall be deemed to be a sufficient commitment:

  2. Georgia, County.

  3. (name of the defendant) having been arrested on a warrant for the offense of and brought before me, after hearing evidence it is ordered that he be committed for trial for the offense of . The jailer of said county (or any other county, if necessary) is required to receive and safely keep him until discharged by due process of law.

  4. Witness my hand and seal, this day of , .

  5. Judicial officer (Seal)

Reading note: the printed indentation of one or more subsections was ambiguous, so their nesting is the extractor's best reading. The official page linked below settles any doubt.

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, § 4619; Code 1868, § 4641; Code 1873, § 4739; Code 1882, § 4739; Penal Code 1895, § 914; Penal Code 1910, § 939; Code 1933, § 27-409; Ga. L. 1999, p. 81, § 17.

Read the official page (the state's PDF, opened at the page this text was read from).

Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

Text read from t17-(v15)-2020-pdf.pdf, Volume V15, 2020 edition, page 462; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 0b0d45f9c609.