O.C.G.A.
O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 16-3-27 (2019)

Benefit of clergy

✓ O.C.G.A. — 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)
Code text and O.C.G.A. statutory annotations on this page reflect the 2019 Official Code of Georgia Annotated (Public.Resource.Org Release 73, 2019-08-21; public domain per Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, 2020). The Syfert case-law annotations in Notes of Decisions, below, are current.
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Since it is no longer needed or appropriate, the ancient device of benefit of clergy shall not exist.

History

Laws 1833, Cobb’s 1851 Digest, p. 837; Code 1863, § 4547; Code 1868, § 4567; Code 1873, § 4661; Code 1882, § 4661; Penal Code 1895, § 17; Pe-

nal Code 1910, § 17; Code 1933, § 26-102; Code 1933, § 26-202, enacted by Ga. L. 1968, p. 1249, § 1.

Annotations

JUDICIAL DECISIONS Cited in Peavy v. State, 159 Ga. App. 280, 283 S.E.2d 346 (1981).