Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 17. CRIMINAL PROCEDURE · Chapter 8. TRIAL · Article 4. CONDUCT AND ARGUMENT OF COUNSEL

17-8-72. Misdemeanors and cases arising from inferior judicatories; time limits on closing argument.

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In all misdemeanor cases and cases brought up from inferior judicatories, counsel for either party shall not occupy more than one-half hour in the whole discussion of the case after the evidence is closed without obtaining special leave of the court before the argument is opened.

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.

Ga. L. 1924, p. 75, § 2; Code 1933, § 27-2203.

U.S. Code.: Closing arguments, Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, Rule 29.1.

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