O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 17-4-29 (2019)

Collecting or receiving costs or other charges of prosecutor or defendant by arresting officer before warrant returned

✓ 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) 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.

(b) 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.

History

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

Annotations

RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. - 21 Am. Jur. 2d, Criminal Law, §§ 19, 20. 24 C.J.S., Criminal Procedure and Rights of the Accused, § 2059 et seq. 70 Am. Jur. 2d, Sheriffs, Police, and Constables, § 41 et seq.

C.J.S. - 24 C.J.S., Criminal Procedure and Rights of the Accused, § 2059 et seq. 67 C.J.S., Officers and Public Employees, § 437 et seq.