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2018 Georgia Code 16-10-92 | Car Wreck Lawyer

TITLE 16 CRIMES AND OFFENSES

Section 10. Offenses Against Public Administration, 16-10-1 through 16-10-98.

ARTICLE 5 OFFENSES RELATED TO JUDICIAL AND OTHER PROCEEDINGS

16-10-92. Acceptance of benefit, reward, or consideration by witness for changing testimony or being absent from trial, hearing, or other proceeding.

A person who is or may be a witness at a trial, hearing, or other proceeding before any court or any officer authorized by the law to hear evidence or take testimony and who receives or agrees or offers to receive any benefit, reward, or consideration to which he is not entitled, pursuant to an agreement or understanding that his testimony will be influenced thereby or that he will absent himself from the trial, hearing, or other proceeding, shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by imprisonment for not less than one nor more than five years.

(Ga. L. 1959, p. 34, § 25; Code 1933, § 26-2312, enacted by Ga. L. 1968, p. 1249, § 1.)

JUDICIAL DECISIONS

Cited in Gardner v. Gwinnett Circuit Bar Ass'n, 241 Ga. 614, 247 S.E.2d 64 (1978).

RESEARCH REFERENCES

Am. Jur. 2d.

- 12 Am. Jur. 2d, Bribery, §§ 18, 19. 58 Am. Jur. 2d, Obstructing Justice, §§ 37 et seq., 46.

C.J.S.

- 11 C.J.S., Bribery, § 9.

ALR.

- Procuring or attempting to procure witness to leave jurisdiction as contempt, 33 A.L.R. 607.

Falsity of contemplated testimony as condition of offense of bribery of, attempt to bribe, or acceptance of bribe or gift by, prospective witness, 110 A.L.R. 582.

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