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O.C.G.A. § 17-4-29 — Collecting or receiving costs or other charges of prosecutor or defendant by arresting officer before warrant returned | 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

17-4-29. Collecting or receiving costs or other charges of prosecutor or defendant by arresting officer before warrant returned.

Any arresting officer who collects or receives any costs or other charges of a prosecutor or defendant in a case made on a state's warrant, or of anyone acting in the interest of either of them, before the warrant is returned to the court to which it is made returnable, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
Nothing in this Code section or in Code Section 17-4-28 shall be construed as prohibiting arresting officers from receiving from prosecutors sums of money sufficient to defray their expenses in going beyond the limits of the jurisdiction of such arresting officer to search for or to make the arrest of the accused person.

(Ga. L. 1897, p. 98, § 2; Penal Code 1910, § 924; Code 1933, § 27-9902.)

RESEARCH REFERENCES

Am. Jur. 2d.

- 5 Am. Jur. 2d, Arrest, § 77. 21 Am. Jur. 2d, Criminal Law, §§ 19, 20. 70 Am. Jur. 2d, Sheriffs, Police, and Constables, § 38 et seq.

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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