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title: Title 16, Chapter 2. Criminal Liability
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date: 2025
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heading: CRIMINAL LIABILITY
title_heading: CRIMES AND OFFENSES
section_count: 9
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# Title 16, Chapter 2. Criminal Liability

Title 16. Crimes and Offenses

9 sections. Each line is `citation, catchline, status, URL`; the text of every section, in order, is at https://georgiacommons.org/code/16-2.md?full=1 (capped, with a pointer to continue).

- 16-2-1, ‘‘Crime’’ defined, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/16-2-1.md
- 16-2-2, Effect of misfortune or accident on guilt, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/16-2-2.md
- 16-2-3, Presumption of sound mind and discretion, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/16-2-3.md
- 16-2-4, Presumption that acts of sound person willful, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/16-2-4.md
- 16-2-5, Presumption that sound person intends natural and probable consequences of acts, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/16-2-5.md
- 16-2-6, Intention a question of fact, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/16-2-6.md
- 16-2-20, When a person is a party to a crime, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/16-2-20.md
- 16-2-21, Prosecution of parties who did not directly commit the crime, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/16-2-21.md
- 16-2-22, Criminal responsibility of corporations, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/16-2-22.md