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title: O.C.G.A. § 17-8-51. Admissibility of testimony of inmates in trials for crime of mutiny.
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# O.C.G.A. § 17-8-51. Admissibility of testimony of inmates in trials for crime of mutiny.

At the trial of an inmate of a penal institution for the crime of mutiny, any other inmate not included in the same indictment shall be a competent witness, and the infamy of his character and of the crime of which he has been convicted shall be exceptions to his credit only.

## History

Laws 1833, Cobb’s 1851 Digest, p. 840; Code 1863, § 4563; Code 1868, § 4583; Code 1873, § 4677; Code 1882, § 4677; Penal Code 1895, § 331; Penal Code 1910, § 336; Code 1933, § 26-4803; Code 1933, § 26-9903, enacted by Ga. L. 1968, p. 1249, § 1.

## Cross References

Mutiny generally, § 16-10-54.