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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 24. EVIDENCE · Chapter 6. WITNESSES · Article 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS

24-6-605. Judge as witness.

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

  1. The judge presiding at the trial shall not testify in that trial as a witness. No objection need be made in order to preserve this issue.

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, § 24-6-605, enacted by Ga. L. 2011, p. 99, § 2/HB 24.

Cross references

Judge’s competency as a witness, Fed. R. Evid. 605.

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

Text read from t24-ch1-7-(v20)-2023-pdf.pdf, Volume V20, 2023 edition, page 476; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 f2f9d1712dd4.