TITLE 15 COURTS

Section 13. Officers of Court Generally, 15-13-1 through 15-13-36.

ARTICLE 2 FEES

15-13-35. Demanding excessive costs; penalty.

Except as otherwise provided by law, any officer of court who knowingly demands, as costs from a defendant in a criminal case, fees to which such officer is not entitled and any prosecuting attorney who demands or receives any fee or costs on any criminal case which has not been tried by a trial jury or otherwise finally disposed of shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

(Laws 1850, Cobb's 1851 Digest, p. 864; Ga. L. 1861, p. 69, § 1; Code 1863, § 4590; Code 1868, § 4611; Code 1873, § 4707; Code 1882, § 4707; Penal Code 1895, § 301; Penal Code 1910, § 305; Code 1933, § 24-9903; Ga. L. 2000, p. 1115, § 1.)