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2018 Georgia Code 16-5-4 | Car Wreck Lawyer

Link to State of Georgia Official Statute 2018 Georgia Code Annotated (sourced from legal.resource.org)
O.C.G.A. 16-5-4 Case Law from Google Scholar Amendments to OCGA 16-5-4

TITLE 16 CRIMES AND OFFENSES

Section 5. Crimes Against the Person, 16-5-1 through 16-5-110.

ARTICLE 1 HOMICIDE

16-5-4. Time elapsed between injury and death.

In order to be a homicide punishable under this article, death need not have occurred within a year and a day from the date of the injury alleged to have caused such death.

(Code 1981, §16-5-4, enacted by Ga. L. 1991, p. 719, § 1.)

Editor's notes.

- Ga. L. 1991, p. 719, § 2, not codified by General Assembly, provides: "It is the intent of this Act to make statutory the ruling of the Supreme Court of Georgia that the year and a day rule referred to herein is not the law of Georgia."

JUDICIAL DECISIONS

Cited in Lang v. State, 344 Ga. App. 623, 812 S.E.2d 16 (2018).

Cases Citing O.C.G.A. § 16-5-4

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Drennon v. State, 880 S.E.2d 139 (Ga. 2022).

Cited 17 times | Published | Supreme Court of Georgia | Oct 25, 2022 | 314 Ga. 854

...the IRC was a “criminal street gang,” that Drennon committed a predicate act of violence contained in OCGA § 16-15-3 (1) (J) and as set forth in the indictment, and that the act of violence was intended to further the interests of the IRC. See OCGA §§ 16-5-4 (a); 16-15-3 (1) (J); 16-15-3 (3); Boyd v....
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in the Matter of Jin Choi, 297 Ga. 793 (Ga. 2015).

Cited 6 times | Published | Supreme Court of Georgia | Oct 5, 2015 | 778 S.E.2d 228