Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 9. CIVIL PRACTICE · Chapter 14. HABEAS CORPUS · Article 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS

9-14-18. Discharge after arrest for offense committed in another state.

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If a person is arrested on suspicion of the commission of an offense in another state and the suspicion is reasonable, the person shall not be discharged until a sufficient time has been given for a demand to be made on the Governor for his rendition.

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, § 3926; Code 1868, § 3949; Code 1873, § 4025; Code 1882, § 4025; Penal Code 1895, § 1228; Penal Code 1910, § 1309; Code 1933, § 50-118.

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