O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 16-6-6 (2019)

Bestiality

✓ 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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(a) A person commits the offense of bestiality when he performs or submits to any sexual act with an animal involving the sex organs of the one and the mouth, anus, penis, or vagina of the other.

(b) A person convicted of the offense of bestiality shall be punished by imprisonment for not less than one nor more than five years.

History

Laws 1833, Cobb’s 1851 Digest, p. 787; Code 1863, §§ 4253, 4254; Code 1868, §§ 4288, 4289; Code 1873, §§ 4354, 4355; Ga. L. 1880-81, p. 74, § 1; Code 1882, §§ 4354, 4355; Penal Code 1895, §§ 384, 385; Penal Code 1910,

§§ 375, 376; Code 1933, §§ 26-5903, 26-5904; Code 1933, § 26-2004, enacted by Ga. L. 1968, p. 1249, § 1.

Annotations

Cross references. - Performance of actual or simulated sexual acts, § 3-3-41.

RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. - 70C Am. Jur. 2d, Sodomy, § 39.

C.J.S. - 81A C.J.S., Sodomy, § 1 et seq.

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 3 cases (1 in the last 5 years), 1998–2025 · leading case: Powell v. State, 510 S.E.2d 18 (Ga. 1998).

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Powell v. State, 510 S.E.2d 18 (Ga. 1998). · cites it 2× “…purposes); § 16-6-5.1 (sexual assault of prisoners, the institutionalized, and the patients of psychotherapists); § 16-6-6 (bestiality); § 16-6-7 (sexual assault of a dead human being); § 16-6-8 (public indecency); §§ 16-6-916-6-12 (prostitution, pimping, pandering); §…”

Matthew Scott Roberts v. State (Ga. Ct. App. 2025). · cites it 2× “Therefore, the version of OCGA § 16-6-6 (a) (2009) in effect on the date of the offenses is applicable and must be read in light of our holding in Scott, 356 Ga.”

Donnie Lee Wynn v. State (Ga. Ct. App. 2013). · cites it 2× “”8 Here, “the victim’s testimony provided evidence of force necessary to support [Wynn’s] rape conviction[].”

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