Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 24. EVIDENCE · Chapter 13. SECURING ATTENDANCE OF WITNESSES AND PRODUCTION AND PRESERVATION OF EVIDENCE · Article 3. SECURING ATTENDANCE OF PRISONERS

24-13-61. Issuance of order requiring prisoner’s delivery to serve as witness in superior court.

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Any judge of the superior court may issue an order to any officer having a lawfully imprisoned person in his or her custody, requiring the production of such person before the court for the purpose of giving evidence in any criminal cause pending therein, without any formal application or writ of habeas corpus ad testificandum for that purpose.

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

Code 1981, § 24-13-61, enacted by Ga. L. 2011, p. 99, § 2/HB 24.

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