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O.C.G.A. § 17-4-28 — Advising, encouraging, or procuring dismissal or settlement of warrant by arresting officer | Georgia Code
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TITLE 17 CRIMINAL PROCEDURE

Section 4. Arrest of Persons, 17-4-1 through 17-4-62.

ARTICLE 2 ARREST BY LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS GENERALLY

17-4-28. Advising, encouraging, or procuring dismissal or settlement of warrant by arresting officer.

Any arresting officer who advises or encourages the dismissal or settlement of any criminal warrant placed in his hands for execution, either before or after an arrest is made on the warrant, or who procures or encourages the dismissal or settlement of such warrants by threats, duress, intimidation, promises, or any other artifice or means shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

(Ga. L. 1897, p. 98, § 1; Penal Code 1910, § 923; Code 1933, § 27-9901.)

JUDICIAL DECISIONS

Cited in Fox v. State, 34 Ga. App. 74, 128 S.E. 222 (1925).

RESEARCH REFERENCES

C.J.S.

- 6A C.J.S., Arrest, § 58 et seq. 67 C.J.S., Officers and Public Employees, § 437 et seq.

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