Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 17. CRIMINAL PROCEDURE · Chapter 9. VERDICT AND JUDGMENT GENERALLY · Article 3. AMENDMENT AND IMPEACHMENT OF VERDICT

17-9-40. Amendment of verdict after dispersion of jury.

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A verdict may be amended in mere matter of form after the jury have dispersed; but, after it has been received, recorded, and the jury dispersed, it may not be amended in matter of substance, either by what the jurors say they intended to find or otherwise.

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, § 3422; Code 1868, § 3442; Code 1873, § 3492; Code 1882, § 3492; Civil Code 1895, § 5111; Civil Code 1910, § 5695; Code 1933, § 110-111.

Cross references

Corresponding provision relating to civil procedure, § 9-12-7.

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