O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 16-10-96 (2019)

Impersonating another in the course of an action, proceeding, or prosecution

✓ O.C.G.A. — 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)

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Any person who shall falsely represent or impersonate another and in such assumed character answer as a witness to interrogatories or do any other act in the course of any action, proceeding, or prosecution or in any other way, matter, or thing, whereby the person so impersonated or represented, or any other person, might suffer damage, loss, or injury shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by confinement for not less than one year nor more than five years. (Laws 1833, Cobb’s 1851 Digest, p. 822; Code 1863, § 4464; Code 1868, § 4508; Code 1873, § 4596; Code 1882, § 4596; Penal Code 1895, § 666; Penal Code 1910, § 711; Code 1933, § 38-9901.)

Annotations

JUDICIAL DECISIONS Cited in Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. v. Vandergriff, 52 Ga. App. 662, 184 S.E. 452 (1936). OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL Former Code 1933, § 38-9901 (see now O.C.G.A. § 16-10-96) was extremely broad and all inclusive and, provided only that the person so personated or represented might suffer damage,

loss, or injury, the statute applied whether the true identity of the impersonator was discovered before, during, or after arraignment, trial, and conviction on other charges. 1954-56 Op. Att’y Gen. p. 128.

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 1 case, 1997–1997 · leading case: Brown v. State, 484 S.E.2d 795 (Ga. Ct. App. 1997).

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Brown v. State, 484 S.E.2d 795 (Ga. Ct. App. 1997). · cites it 4× “OCGA § 16-10-96. As the one impersonated must be an actual person in order to demonstrate the possibility of “damage, loss, or injury” from impersonation, OCGA § 16-10-96, the one impersonated must be an actual person in order for the trier of fact to consider whether he or she…”

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