5-5-22. Illegal admission or exclusion of evidence.

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

The courts may grant new trials in all cases when any material evidence may be illegally admitted to or illegally withheld from the jury over the objection of the movant.

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

Ga. L. 1853-54, p. 46, § 1; Code 1863, § 3638; Code 1868, § 3663; Code 1873, § 3714; Code 1882, § 3714; Civil Code 1895, § 5478; Penal Code 1895, § 1059; Civil Code 1910, § 6083; Penal Code 1910, § 1086; Code 1933, § 70-203.

Cross references

Evidence generally, T. 24.

Law reviews

For article, ‘‘A Discussion of the 1957 Amendments to Rules of Practice and Procedure in Georgia,’’ see 19 Ga. B.J. 395 (1957).

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